I like ıskender

XD

I have a friend from Turkey actually

I used to

She took us to a restaurant here in CA called Ephesus

I left the circle we were in though

She is from the European side of Constantinople

I knew a Brazilian that had the hots for s Turkish girl

Are Turkish people Hamites @Byzas

I'm not sure about them
they see east Asians as cousins though right? That could suggest they are related

Well

Turks are Altaic in origin

There has also been plenty of mixture throughout history at this point

But modern Turks are more Greek, especially in West anatolia

aye

You mean turkish from turkey or turkic?

Yes i was about to say that lmao.

Also by the time the Seljuk Turks arrived in Anatolia they had a lot of Iranian admixture

Yeah that's true , Turkish people were mixed to the Greeks mainly when they got to the Anatolia.

Iranian and Arab too probably

Iranian maybe, but not Arab

Levantine in any case for southeast, i don't think they have a lot of arab tbh.

southeast anatolia. *

No I don't see Levantines as Arabs

They're Arabized Levantines

@󠀂 󠀂 Actually, Seljuks didn't mix with the Iranians that much. Only those who settled in Iran, like Azerbaijan area

Egyptians aren't really Arab either

Oh

Yeah Azerbaijan is basically Iranians who speak Turkish

(Oghuz) Turkic people in Iran today

True egiptians are still mediterranean copts.

Azeris are Oghuz too?

Yeah

Despite nor being arabs, can we consider levantines as semitic too?

What did OG Oghuzes look like

@arsenicMysticist original Levantines were Semitic

I bed the OG Oghuzes looked like Kazakhs

Phoenicia and Israel were Levantinr

And nowdays levantines aren't?

They still are

But a different kind of Semitic