Is it me or is Pan Turkism in Central Asia spreading faster than crack during the crack epidemic in the 80s?

Nop. What you mean is East Asian DNA and this doesn’t mean much when you consider that other Turkic people have between 30 and 40% East Asian DNA. Turkish people in Western Anatolia from Sivas to the Agean Sea outside of the metropoles are 40-50% Turkic and 50-60% native Anatolian. East side of Sivas towards Eastern Anatolia you will have Caucasian DNA towards northeast and Iranic DNA towards southeast (assimilated or very intermixed Kurds, Zaza, Georgian, Laz, Hemshin, Armenian). Outside of metropoles because they are very cosmopolitan with people across the whole country and lots of Balkan „Turks“ (basically everybody who was muslims were declared as Turk and kicked out) who came to Turkey after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The „native“ Anatolian Turkish (no Balkan Turks etc) are easily shown to be 50/50. And when you would visit the real Turkey outside of Istanbul, you would immediately notice (appearance, culture)

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