KARABOĞA
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First of all, I'm not open this thread to provoke anyone. And I know genetically and culturally Iberians are of course undoubtedly European and the other hand Turks are maybe have more Euro-admixture than their eastern neighbours such as MENA or Caucasus people but still they are genetically West Asian mostly. And mostly people don't considired them as European exactly.
I've never been to Spain or Portugal and I've been watching football and basketball for years and in these sports the people in the Turkish teams are always seemed to be more lighter or same skin toned than those in Spain and Portugal. (I know Spain or Portugal don't have full of native players but I'm already talking about just native Iberians. Also in Turkish team Ferdi and Kenan is not fully Turkish so we cannot count two. But I already talking about fully Turkish and fully Iberian players.) Here are the pics:
Many people think Turks are something like Middle Eastern and Arab and Iberians are undoubtedly European but I don't see any difference in pigmentation, even Turkish team is slightly lighter. I'm not claiming that Turks are obviously lighter skinned than Iberians or something but I just don't understand why there is such an impression. For example, the Georgian team (genetically completely West Asian) also looks lighter than the Iberians. If I open this thread to Apricity probably everyone would stone me and they keep saying that I'm OWD.
I've never been to Spain or Portugal and I've been watching football and basketball for years and in these sports the people in the Turkish teams are always seemed to be more lighter or same skin toned than those in Spain and Portugal. (I know Spain or Portugal don't have full of native players but I'm already talking about just native Iberians. Also in Turkish team Ferdi and Kenan is not fully Turkish so we cannot count two. But I already talking about fully Turkish and fully Iberian players.) Here are the pics:
Many people think Turks are something like Middle Eastern and Arab and Iberians are undoubtedly European but I don't see any difference in pigmentation, even Turkish team is slightly lighter. I'm not claiming that Turks are obviously lighter skinned than Iberians or something but I just don't understand why there is such an impression. For example, the Georgian team (genetically completely West Asian) also looks lighter than the Iberians. If I open this thread to Apricity probably everyone would stone me and they keep saying that I'm OWD.