[little jeremiah]

A Turk? He doesn’t look Turkish at all; was he born in the UK?

[ichabod1]

He was born in New York City! To two British parents. Wikipedia says this:

Johnson’s paternal great-grandfather was Circassian-Turkish journalist Ali Kemal[12][13][14] who was a secular Muslim;

and this:

Johnson’s mother is the granddaughter of Elias Avery Lowe, a palaeographer, who was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the US,[