Let us look at how much Medieval Turkoman ancestry modern Turks from different regions of Turkey have.
Balkanite/Thracian Turks:
Deliorman: 15.6%
Rumeli: 18%
Anatolian Turks:
Northwest: 35%
Southwest: 34.4%
North: 27.2%
Central: 24.6%
South: 36.6%
East: 10.2%
Balkanite/Thracian Turks:
Deliorman: 15.6%
Rumeli: 18%
Anatolian Turks:
Northwest: 35%
Southwest: 34.4%
North: 27.2%
Central: 24.6%
South: 36.6%
East: 10.2%
Contrary to popular opinions, Turks from Turkey have a lot more Medieval Turkoman ancestry than people think. Most DNA studies on Turks only count their East Asian as part of Turkic but forget that the Oghuz Turks had mixed with Scythians and carried their Y-DNA (R1a) too.
Also, one might expect Eastern Anatolia to have the highest Turkoman ancestry, but it is the western part which peaks in Turkic ancestry (35%). This reflects the settlement pattern of Oghuz Turks: they settled with entire families in Western Anatolia.
Turks & Greeks are not the "same people" at all genetically, they might sometimes look similar but that is because a lot of modern Turks are Bosnians, Albanians or Bulgarians who were Turkified.
In fact, modern Greeks have a lot of Slavic ancestry, making them very European.
In fact, modern Greeks have a lot of Slavic ancestry, making them very European.
Here's the source for the beautiful map from the Turkish DNA Project.
turkishdnaproject.com
turkishdnaproject.com
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