And the others are Caucasian Armenians.
That explains the prison guard in Midnight Express.
Enraged Turks....keep moving.
Well, at least they’re not French.
My DIL is supposedly half Greek and half Polish. We did her ancestry test and she’s 48% Scandinavian, about 25% Eastern European, and a little German and English. I mean I traced her great grandparents to a little town in Greece from where they emigrated to America...and yet absolutely no Greek ancestry. Turns out Albanians and Vikings had a huge presence in Greece for centuries so there’s very few pure Greek ppl in that country. Her dad was super shocked, lol.
Wouldn’t be bad being Greek. Where do they wish they were from?
It would be interesting if there had been DNA testing back in the 20s when they did the Great Reset after World War I. Turks who lived in Greece had to go back to Turkey. Greeks who lived in Turkey had to go back to Greece.
Would explain various similarities...
“Historical” information from my maternal grandmother’s side of the family had my grandmother as mostly Lebanese. Her daughter (my aunt) was tested a couple of years ago and found out she’s close to 50% Greek/Italian, which we believe to be Greek when looking at the family history very closely. All sorts of reasons why people called themselves a certain nationality back in the day.
That’s a Babylon Bee level title there!
Convert or pay the second-class citizen tax and get nowhere in society - how you convert locals to Muslim Arabs/Turks (depending on which country we are talking about).
Then after generations of referring to your family as Arab/Turk Muslim, it is an “insult” to know your family was really just traitors to the locals.
I got an idea, let’s go to war over Cyprus again.
Majority Greek? No, Turkoman, Kurds and Cossacks.
Throw in a Syrian or two...
5.56mm
The Turks raped their way across Asia and eastern Europe for 1000 years, capturing slaves and selling them in the Istanbul markets.
Greeks who converted to Islam. Damn…
This reminds me of why Nathan Bigby divorced his wife after so many years of marriage.
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.
I wonder what a DNA study of modern Greeks would show.