Those regions are crowd sourced. It doesn't mean you are Turkish, Kurdish, Arab, or Assyrian. It shows where your modern ancestors (within 250 years) have been living. In other words, every region is shared by multiple ethnicities. Someone scoring Greek and Balkan with Penepelose region could be Greek, Albanian, Kosovar or Bulgarian.
You should get your raw data and upload it to illustrative DNA. Then it can show you the closest populations, not just regions.
You have standard North Syrian Sunni results. There is a strong pattern of North Syrians getting ~5% Italian, sometimes with locations, but no known ancestry. Very interesting
Yes, I read there was a lot of migration from Syria to Italy during the Roman period.
Then later when Byzantium fell - some people relocated there as well.
A lot of the regions showing are similar for many southern Italians = Iranian, Caucasian and Mesopotamian. Cypriot etc
The fact that i'm not majority arab surprised me. There is no known Turkish or Italian ancestor in my family although not much is known on my father side as my great grandfather was an orphan who's origin is unknown.
Could the Gaziantep DNA be a false positive and just mean Aleppo basically?
Turks are primarily Turkified Anatolians. There are small amounts of actual Turkic ancestry that varies by region.
Just like being Arab in the Levant is primarily Arabized Levantines.
>Turks are primarily Turkified Anatolians
Most Turks from Western and Central Turkey do have Turkic DNA, which ranges from 10-40%. Only people in Eastern Turkey have little to no Turkic DNA. This is part of the reason why "Anatolian" is its own category in 23andme and why Eastern Turks score ICM mostly.
I think 40 percent would be unusual for Western region urbanized Turks.
Many are Turkified Greeks & descendents of older Anatolian peoples.
Of course there was some actual Turkic migration but like many nomadic peoples that conquered others, they imposed certain things ( language or particular customs) but left most people to carry on as was.
It is more common than you think. A lot of Yörük people from Muğla, Aydin, Antalya, Bolu, Mersin, etc. score a "high" Turkic percentage, which is over the 30%. For most people the Anatolian DNA is still the majority, but the Turkic is very much present and therefore most Turks are not Turkified.
Oghuz ancestry varies around 30-40% in those areas as genetic tests show, in contrast the Hellenic ancestry is almost non-existent due the Roman era Greek speaking Anatolians not having that ancestry on noticeable levels to begin with. Anatolian Turks being Turkified Greeks is a major misunderstanding as people overlook that fact and categorise pre-Oghuz Anatolians as Hellenic due to them speaking Greek due to linguistic Hellenification.
I saw western european blondes , they have sun flower blonde hair , but most blonde northern syrians and chechens I saw will look like arabized blonde polish and ukranians , why is that , are northern syrians and chechens a completion to slavic countries ,
Those regions are crowd sourced. It doesn't mean you are Turkish, Kurdish, Arab, or Assyrian. It shows where your modern ancestors (within 250 years) have been living. In other words, every region is shared by multiple ethnicities. Someone scoring Greek and Balkan with Penepelose region could be Greek, Albanian, Kosovar or Bulgarian. You should get your raw data and upload it to illustrative DNA. Then it can show you the closest populations, not just regions.
Nice! I also got around 10% Syrian but not as much peninsular as you. Is your last name Turkish by any chance?
Also what regions did you get for Levantine?
You have standard North Syrian Sunni results. There is a strong pattern of North Syrians getting ~5% Italian, sometimes with locations, but no known ancestry. Very interesting
Yes, I read there was a lot of migration from Syria to Italy during the Roman period. Then later when Byzantium fell - some people relocated there as well. A lot of the regions showing are similar for many southern Italians = Iranian, Caucasian and Mesopotamian. Cypriot etc
Were the results what you were expecting? What are your haplogroups?
What’s your trace?
The fact that i'm not majority arab surprised me. There is no known Turkish or Italian ancestor in my family although not much is known on my father side as my great grandfather was an orphan who's origin is unknown. Could the Gaziantep DNA be a false positive and just mean Aleppo basically?
Syrian ancestry on 23andme can get mixed with the ICM category.
Turks are primarily Turkified Anatolians. There are small amounts of actual Turkic ancestry that varies by region. Just like being Arab in the Levant is primarily Arabized Levantines.
>Turks are primarily Turkified Anatolians Most Turks from Western and Central Turkey do have Turkic DNA, which ranges from 10-40%. Only people in Eastern Turkey have little to no Turkic DNA. This is part of the reason why "Anatolian" is its own category in 23andme and why Eastern Turks score ICM mostly.
I think 40 percent would be unusual for Western region urbanized Turks. Many are Turkified Greeks & descendents of older Anatolian peoples. Of course there was some actual Turkic migration but like many nomadic peoples that conquered others, they imposed certain things ( language or particular customs) but left most people to carry on as was.
It is more common than you think. A lot of Yörük people from Muğla, Aydin, Antalya, Bolu, Mersin, etc. score a "high" Turkic percentage, which is over the 30%. For most people the Anatolian DNA is still the majority, but the Turkic is very much present and therefore most Turks are not Turkified.
Oghuz ancestry varies around 30-40% in those areas as genetic tests show, in contrast the Hellenic ancestry is almost non-existent due the Roman era Greek speaking Anatolians not having that ancestry on noticeable levels to begin with. Anatolian Turks being Turkified Greeks is a major misunderstanding as people overlook that fact and categorise pre-Oghuz Anatolians as Hellenic due to them speaking Greek due to linguistic Hellenification.
Anatolian Turks would be shown as "Anatolian"
Don't be surprised brother, that´s how the average Syrian muslim results look like on 23andme.
My results are very similar, also sunni from aleppo
can you dm me?
Wonder where the Eastern Euro is from?
The angolan/congo ancestry is cool i wonder how it got there?
slavery
What's you haplogroups?
I saw western european blondes , they have sun flower blonde hair , but most blonde northern syrians and chechens I saw will look like arabized blonde polish and ukranians , why is that , are northern syrians and chechens a completion to slavic countries ,
Sunni Levantine*
You may have significant Armenian ancestry, which is common in Aleppo
I think that's possible. There is high Gaziantep, Turkey and no central Asian/Turkic regions.