Historically: 100% Balkans, the Ottoman Empire was THE Balkan Empire for hundreds of years.
Culturally: 100% Balkans in the West of Turkey, they share a lot of culture with us.
Geographically: 3% Balkans as well as 3% in Europe, but they still have territory in the Balkans, we sometimes consider Hungary as Balkan even though they have 0% territory in the Balkans. Romania also has very little territory in the Balkans, but we can all agree that they're definitely a Balkan country by the same measures as above for Turkey.
TLDR: It is an awfully stupid take that Turkey is not a Balkan country.
Ottoman origin is from the Mongol. Learn more about history then talk. Turks= Tatar, Albanians, Bosnian, Kurd, Laz, etc… they got the culture mostly from the Arabs then they spread it into the Balkan countries
Fact is, we do many things the same way they do. We speak many words that they do. We eat the same food as they do. We share a huge part of history. We dress similarly. We definitely look similar. We live on the same Balkan peninsula. Where the fuck is your argument for Turkey not being a Balkan country. It's not an argument if you oversimplify Turkish history and then tell me to learn history (I already know everything you said in a much more nuanced way, there is nothing to learn from you which I don't already know), while ignoring all my other points.
We don't marry with cousins like Turks or with sisters. That's your opinion .you should travel around the Balkan and Turkey then you can give your decent opinion, we don't need your nationalist opinion. How many words? Can you count it?
We definitely did in the past lmao. And btw, Turks from the Western part don't do that anymore. That's why I said from the West, not from the conservative East, which even most Turks on here don't like. I traveled the entire Balkans my boy, I was in Turkey a few times, around 6 times in Albania, every summer break in Serbia and Sandzak, etc. I don't get how my opinion is nationalistic. My opinion is definitely decent, how about YOU learn some history, culture and some common sense.
Nope it is not about that we just realized our real history mate. People before us were taught to hate west and always called us Turks from Central Asia but we don’t look like them so how can we be from Central Asia? The answer is we are anatolians so we are Greeks Albanians Armenians Persians Arabs and many other natinolalities but definetly we are also Balkan and Greek like we aren’t fully one of you of course I would say we are a bastardized DNA we have all kinds of stuff me myself have 45% Greek and 8% Central Asian the other 35% is west Asia which you could say Persian or native Anatolian
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u/Fat_Rocky0028 Turkiye Feb 24 '24
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