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Turkish Erotic
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Turkey and global Turkish diaspora
Region
Western Asia
About Turkish People
Turks (Türkler) comprise approximately 76% of the Turkish population — about 65M+ in Turkey, plus the substantial Turkish diaspora globally (~6-7M+ predominantly in Germany ~3M+, France ~700,000+, the Netherlands ~400,000+, Austria ~360,000+, Belgium ~250,000+, Switzerland ~120,000+, plus communities globally — particularly through the post-1961 Gastarbeiter labor-migration program to Western Europe). The Turkish ethnogenesis traces to the 11th-c. Oghuz Turkic migration into Anatolia (the Seljuk Empire's victory at the Battle of Manzikert 1071 opened Anatolia to Turkic settlement) plus subsequent consolidation under the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate, the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922), and the post-1923 Republic of Turkey. The Turkish ethnogenesis combined the Oghuz Turkic source-population with substantial Anatolian Indigenous source-population substrate — genome-wide studies (Yunusbayev et al. 2015) place average Turkish ancestry as predominantly West Eurasian / Anatolian-Indigenous-substrate with smaller East Asian / Mongol-Turkic admixture from the Oghuz migration. The Turkish language is part of the Oghuz Turkic family. Predominantly Sunni Muslim (~80% Hanafi madhhab) with substantial Alevi sub-population (the Alevis are ethnically Turkish or Kurdish — separately discussed in alevi note).
Typical Turkish Phenotypes
Reference for AI generation — hair, eyes, skin, facial structure, build
Skin tone is predominantly Fitzpatrick II-IV with III the modal value, with substantial regional variation (eastern Turkish populations skew slightly darker than western Turkish populations of the Aegean and Marmara regions). Hair texture is most often wavy to curly (Andre Walker 1B-2C), predominantly dark brown to black with non-trivial frequencies of medium brown and rarely lighter variants. Facial features track Anatolian / West Asian source populations: oval-to-rectangular face shapes, taller-and-narrower nasal bridges, fuller lips, prominent dark eyebrows. Eye color is predominantly brown but with elevated frequencies of hazel, green, and rarely blue variants. Build is intermediate to taller; adult Turkish male mean stature is approximately 174-177 cm in 2010s-2020s urban cohorts.
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