The Ancestry and Origins of the Turks

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[ordafles]

Turkish people have Central Asian dna and mostly immigrated from Turkenistan to Anatolia which seperated into Yörüks and Türkmens. People try to propogate there is no Turkic in the comment section.

[swordandshield]

Whoever lives in Turkey is Turkish according to Atatürk nationalism.its not about gens, ete colour or dna

[KhanTonyukuk]

This was a good response to Greek propaganda. He emphasized that Turks and Anatolia are not Greeks, and that Anatolian Turks are basically a mixture of native Anatolians and Turks. Thanks for the video, I liked it.

[benb.]

To be a Turk ist not definded by blood/DNA, common history, birthplace, spoken tongue or religion. It is definded by turkish spirit, mindset, turkish way of life, common emotions and turkish interaction culture.

[silviueugen]

This video is very intresing, i alway tought that modern day anatolian turks had around 20 to 10% turkic ancestry and the rest is from the indigenous population(iron age anatolian+ minor greek ancestry).
Apparently their genetic breakdown is very diverse and i didnt expected that many population to contribute to today's turks from anatolia. All being said keep up this good work

[bayxman]

Anatolian Turks took the most beautiful women of the countries they conquered as wives, DNA comes from the mother, so it is natural for them to have different genetics. Also Anatolian Turks are from the Oghuz tribe and do not have slanted eyes, the number of Turks in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Crimea, Gagauz, Cyprus etc. is 150 million.. the important thing is that we grow up with Turks and Turkish consciousness, therefore our genetics are not important. Turkey is the country that embraces Turkish consciousness the most in the world.

[gamalnassertv]

Central Asian or "Turkic", is way too high man compared to the actual studies I've seen. The peer reviewed material shows it sits at around 10% (and depends a lot on region or group). Turks are carrying mostly Greek, Anatolian and Caucasus ancestries overall.
Edit: OK, East Eurasian is ~10%, while Turkik is ~30% and it ranges, I pretty much agree with the video, my mistake 👍🏿

[Sirius-Voyager]

I am a Turk has a Turkic, Anatolian Caucausus and Slavic roots.

[majidbineshgar]

This map shows as If western Iran had been part of Ottoman territory which is wrong since only for a very short period of time Ottomans invaded parts of western Iran and subsequently Iranians managed to re-gain their territory .

[koseku]

Anatolia has been a crossroad of civilizations therefore the genetic diversity iş huge

[hiphopandpop]

The j2 paternal of ottomans were mostly Iranian farmers related not Anatolians J2, but todays modern Turkey Anatolian J2 is higher than the Iranian farmers J2.

[potatoemperor]

DOMINANT LEGACIES:
Ancient Anatolian Heritage: Between 25% and 65%
Ancient Turkic Heritage: Between 10% and 55%

OTHER HERITAGES FOUND: Ancient Caucasus, Siberia, Levant (Average: 10%-25%)

[marioguerreiro]

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[cepkahklc]

It would take a long time to explain this. I will try to explain it briefly. There is a genetic mixture in those who have lived in cities for hundreds of years in Turkey. But this mixture is an exception in rural areas. The urban population of Turkey is much less than in rural areas. There may be 10 percent of real Istanbulites in Istanbul. Until recently, there were marriages between relatives or villagers in rural areas. There were very few people who married outside the village. This situation changed a little when the cities grew. These villages migrated from Central Asia as Oghuz tribes. And they all established separate villages and towns. Turkish villages, Kurdish villages, Laz villages, etc. They all know their own roots. For example, my origins are in the same village for 300 years and my ancestors never married outside the village. The village was established 300 years ago anyway.

[turkkahvesi]

How German is Germany? How French is France? How Italian is Italy? How Danish is Denmark? ... and so on. All our identities are cultural not biological, we are born in an area and its culture. What you defend is this cultural identity. Your YDNA haplogroup shows paternal lineage dating back thousand of years, the same goes with your mtDNA, your autosomal dna shows only recent chages that you get from your father and mother.

[Ibserver]

I would like to know your source for this video

[jivanselbi]

mixing is a healthy way of bringing up a healthy generation.. we, Turks have no complain about it.. and does not change the fact we are TURKS .. all mankind are of sons of Noah, no one is superior nor inferior because of race or colour..

[bhag]

What is he defining as Turkic? Because the original Turks are indistinguishable from Mongolians, and are today best represented by Tuvans or Yakuts. If he is defining Turks as beginning in Central Asia, then they were already heavily mixed with various Iranic peoples.

[benb.]

The turkish DNA-Mix includes
if you look to more detailled DNA-slides,
30-40 different Haplo-Groups.
There are not so many other societies,
which represent more or less the whole human world,
how the turkish one does.

[zinkamkamzin]

hazara ppl are pure turkmen we still here but in very small numbers due to our ppl being genocided over the years...