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Post by k5125 on Jun 29, 2005 8:38:28 GMT -5
Some say they are European. Others say they are Asians. And yet some say they are middle eastern. I tend to view them as middle easterners, all of turkey too, even the ones from Istanbul.
What do you think?
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Post by mike2 on Jun 29, 2005 8:52:08 GMT -5
Well, that depends on what you mean by Middle Eastern. If you mean regionally, yes, they are Middle Eastern. They are also Asian.
If you mean racially though, they are a combination of Middle Eastern (Cappadocian), European (Pontic Mediterranean), and Central Asian (Iranid and Turanid) phenotypes.
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Post by k5125 on Jun 29, 2005 8:57:07 GMT -5
I would wager that this turk is of european extraction.  But these turkish people look middle eastern.   |
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Post by yigal on Jun 29, 2005 10:37:32 GMT -5
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Post by henerte on Jun 29, 2005 12:18:16 GMT -5
Turkey doesn't belong to any of these categories. They are neither European nor Middle Eastern. They are in a cathegory of their own - that's why they have such problems with finding their place on earth.
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Post by k5125 on Jun 29, 2005 12:26:57 GMT -5
What about Iran and Afghanistan and Pakistan? Are they middle eastern?
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Post by cocacola on Jun 29, 2005 14:48:27 GMT -5
From a geographical point of view, Iran is part of the Middle east, Pakistan is part of South Asia and Afghanistan is part of Central Asia.
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Post by ohes on Jun 29, 2005 22:00:11 GMT -5
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Post by jp13323 on Jul 7, 2005 11:59:28 GMT -5
If they are considered white then I must be casper the ghost.
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Post by ohes on Jul 7, 2005 18:45:21 GMT -5
OK, it is not like we want to be considered anything like some of the people here. Just do not associate us with something that we are not.
Edit: one more thing to add, for the starter of the thread. As I have said before the difference between Turks living in different parts of Turkey is minimal. And even if there was such a difference, you can be assured that you can not find that in Istanbul. Istanbul's population was something like 2 million in 1970's and it is 12 million now. Istanbul (and other major cities) have immigrants from every part of the country, especially Kurds who have left their homes for several reasoins like terror populate the ghettoes.
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Post by Ponto Hardbottle on Jul 8, 2005 9:23:16 GMT -5
If they are considered white then I must be casper the ghost. I wish you were. Ghosts don't exist, simpletons do. |
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Post by Ponto Hardbottle on Jul 8, 2005 9:39:46 GMT -5
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jul 8, 2005 17:15:11 GMT -5
Those are pretty neat. I saw the one for east Asia in the Mongoloid thread, too. Do you have any more of these scans? |
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Post by Ponto Hardbottle on Jul 10, 2005 7:47:30 GMT -5
They come from a book I have which was written by Gordon T. Bowles. I scanned them from the book. I don't like using that book as it is nearly 30 years old, published in 1977 and the references in the back are ancient. Even that German von Eickstedt, that Agrippa is so fond of, is referenced as he was an expert on Andaman Islanders.
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Post by oguz on Jul 15, 2005 13:04:31 GMT -5
I can say Turks are Turks. I don't need any other term. I can recognize a Turk very easily. I don't know how but I can manage it. Most of the people will agree with me. And I think that there are a lot of unknown parts in history and genetic science. We don't know all of the things yet.
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