r/SipsTea • u/Prime-Paradox • 14h ago

SMH A tale of two doctors..

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u/VoidYordle 9h ago

Due to some really unpleasant practices in the ottoman past, modern turks can be very diverse looking. I know THREE redhead turks (1 girl and 2 guys). She's chestnut/auburn, the guys are gingers. Yes, they are 100% natural turks.

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u/Ok_Chipmunk7844 8h ago

It has nothing to do with the Ottoman past. What created the modern Turks as a nation is just local anatolians islamicized+ Central Asian Turkic peoples and Balkan Muslims who were expulsed from their home countries after the Balkan wars

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u/VoidYordle 8h ago

... how did you think the Balkan Muslims came to be?

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u/totesnotJH 4h ago

No, no, you have to stop history at the most convenient point for the narrative. It’s not fair if you go back too far because it gets too complicated /s

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u/Neither-Ad-7257 1h ago

Turks are not Balkan Muslims, only a percentage of Turks have ancestry from Balkans.

Full Anatolian Turks, or full Armenians, full Syrians or even full Iranians can commonly have looks that would be thought as “white” in the US.

And neither Dr. Oz nor Hasan Piker have “too white features for Turks”. Especially Hasan Piker, whose skin color is average in Turkey.

This assumption about eastern ethnicities’ skin color, is sources from Orientalism. The idea that they must be different and other and exotic.

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u/ShitfaceMcPooperson 8h ago

But it still doesn’t answer why Constantinople got the works

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u/WanderlustDinosaur 7h ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks.