Am I part Turk?

Question

I found out that I have some ancestry from the Ottoman Empire from about the 1500s, am I still part Turk?

Answer 1

The Ottoman empire was something like this: turks+greeks+arabs+bulgarians+serbs+pers...

So, how you can be sure are you part Turk? Impossible. The Turkish today are also not a pure nation - a lot of Kurds and also other nations.

Answer 2

In the Ottoman Empire, there were a lot of nations living under the same rule: romanians, hungarians, serbs, montenegrins, macedonians, greeks, vlachs, bulgarians, armenians, kurds, arabians, galatian and albanians beside the turks and other turkoman people. Also, there were sefardies people from Spain and Portugal.

Answer 3

Yes, you are Turkish!

Answer 4

if you consider yourself to be Turkish, you are Turkish. that's all.

our genetic background is so mixed up that you can't talk about a genetically pure Turkishness anymore.

we are all children of a major empire. and that is - in my opinion - enough to feel more humane; not belonging to a so called "pure" genetical background I mean. less vulnerable to human weakness.

Answer 5

It's a mixture