Posted on 06/13/2021 12:52:23 PM PDT by euram
The Turkish DNA Project, an online endeavor to track Turkish genetics, is enraged at the popular genealogy site Ancestry.com and has called for it to be boycotted for stating an inconvenient truth: many, and possibly most, modern Turks are the descendants of the Greeks who once formed the overwhelming majority of the population of the land that is now Turkey. In this as in so many other instances, the truth hurts, but that doesn’t make it any less the truth.
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My parents are from Italy and go back many generations there. My oldest son and I have “mongolian spots” here and there. It makes me wonder, but I don’t trust those dna companies.
Kievans and Rus were Scandis, lots of raiding in the area. Plus all the Varnagians in Byzantium.
We knew that already...
Plus Ancestrydotcom has no creds as a source for proofs of direct ancestry...
Few serious family research people use them...
Hereditary societies dont accept their ‘info’ for membership...
The western part of Turkey is part of Grecia Magna.
Needs to be returned to Greece and Christianized.
Present day Turkey was a land of many great nations. There were Hittites, Armenians, Lydians, Celts (Galatians), Syrians, Medes (Kurds), Persians and of course Greeks. Real Turks invaded the area around A.D 1000 as a small, but determined band of warriors. They eventually conquered all middle East, North Africa and Balkans. The people were forced to convert to Turkish nationality and Muslim faith.
Then again most of the DNA tests results by Ancestry are wrong - according to articles published last year some time.
In the population exchange in the 1920s, Muslims in Greece were considered Turks and Greek Orthodox in Turkey were considered Greeks (even if they spoke Turkish).
In the late Middle Ages/early modern period, a lot of Albanians moved south into Greece and many rural areas were still Albanian-speaking in the 19th or even the 20th century. Of course the policy of the government was to get everyone to speak Greek.
In 1980 I spent a few days in a village in central Greece with several other Americans. One of the Americans told me of a conversation she had with an old lady in the village. After they exchanged greetings in Modern Greek, the old lady told her, "That's all the Greek I know. Do you speak Albanian?"
Well ....
Be circumspect in how you broach the question with your parents.
You got it.
I don’t need to. It’s a well known error. As we know with covid and climate change, what passes as “science” is often fake.
Thanks for your concern.
I wonder what a DNA study of modern Greeks would show.
In the USA people take out college loans and voluntarily become slaves to the banks. At least the Turks were more honest about slavery.
Agreed. I did a DNA search found out my father was adopted. My family was peeved at me for upending a pile of fabricated Irish family stories with this info.
Upside, I got to meet my Scottish cousins I didn’t know I had!
Best headline about this article so far:
“Quirky Turks Merked & Irked”
Modern Day Locations
History of Ethnicities
Notable Ancestors
Migrations into and from the region
The dna part is very real and accurate, you just have to know how to use it.
I have found the parents of adoptees and the great grandparents of others based solely on dna and investigative tools that I pay for.
I'd say it's probably more like an indentured servant, but it is true: people will jump at any chance to enslave themselves to useless baubles.
It’s Ancestry.com. Just wait a week and the test results will change.
The Turks enslaved a lot of people—pirate raids, capturing people traveling by sea, and through the “blood tribute” (taking Christian boys from rural areas of the empire and forcing them to become Muslims). If some of those enslaved had offspring there could be Turks with Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Italian or other ancestries.
The Biblical Galatians in Turkey had their origins as Gallic/Celtic nomads and mercenaries from western and central Europe.
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