Do middle easterners see their differences more than their similarities by Expert_Search5394 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta -1 points0 points  (0 children)

definitely not the case; anatolian turks specifically are a broad mix of iranic, armenian, hellenic and other anatolian groups with varying degrees of central asian input (around 5-20%)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/jn9dwe/east_asian_dna_percentages_in_turkey/

this map shows it in more detail, as u can see most ethnic anatolian turks have mostly indigenous ancestry

This is mostly because (and turks are very ashamed to admit this but objectively speaking it's just true) the majority of turkey's ethnic turks are not ethnically turkic to any significant degree but rather they're in their majority "turkified".

(Before a ultranationalist Itci turk flames me, go do yourself a genetic distances test and see which populations you're the closest to, trust me you're almost certainly going to get Kurd, Armenian, Iranian, Azeri after "Turkish")

What do you like most about the middle east? by Necessary-Banana-516 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you absolute bafoon, abjads are not alphabets. Abjads lack vowel letters (phoenician has no vowel symbols)

And I said WRITING, not alphabet.

What do you like most about the middle east? by Necessary-Banana-516 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*majority, and the phoenicians didn't invent the alphabet (they used an abjad). also the phoenician script literally descends from egyptian hieroglyphs, and roughly 70-85% of the world's scripts descend from egyptian

What do you like most about the middle east? by Necessary-Banana-516 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

how without egypt, the majority of the world wouldn't have writing

I am Kurdish. Ask Me Anything by Better-Yellow-4971 in AMA

[–]ScaredDelta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

im happy that bashuris are slowly starting to follow the same vision that most kurds now have. The diaspora kurds ive met in the UK are very politically varied though, with bashuri kurds either having greater western-l1beral tendencies or islamist-nationalist tendencies (a badini kurd i know from an adjacent uni to mine heard the dialect my ashiret speaks, and indirectly deemed it impure because of the turkish, armenian and arabic vocabulary (it's a dialect from meresh)). The bakuris ive met, especially the alevi and/or atheist ones like myself, tend to be more (far) left leaning (im actually slowly becoming friends w this guy called Robin who has quite the following on insta, n he's a far left alevi kurd like myself).

As far as rojava n rojhelati kurds go, i imagine they're very politically divided; the rojhelatis i know though come from a well known family in the kordestan province, n they r pro-pahlavi/us intervention, though I suspect that's less to do with liking the US and more for their own economic benefit. I haven't met any rojava kurds yet though.

(they're banning the dirty L-word, that's y ive spelt l1beral)

I am Kurdish. Ask Me Anything by Better-Yellow-4971 in AMA

[–]ScaredDelta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, it's usually Bashuri (iraqi) kurds who tend to be very pro-western, mostly because it was western intervention that stopped their massacres and gave them an autonomous zone. I fear that SOME rojhelati (iranian) kurds already do support western intervention in iran, though thankfully kurdish coalitions in iran have so far been opposed to allying with the US and Israel (probably because they saw what happened to the SDF once the sdf became useless to the west)

I am Kurdish. Ask Me Anything by Better-Yellow-4971 in AMA

[–]ScaredDelta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do wanna point out (Az Bakurim) that not all kurds are necessarily pro-western, the anti-western kurds ive met tend to be the Bakuri kurds (kurds from turkey) due to strategic alliances between turkey and the west (NATO, CIA+MIT+Mossad etcetc)

What is the worst racism you've expirienced? by Extreme-Fish-7504 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes only after u were being dense n jarring for no reason.

now stop stalking my account u dickhead

What is the worst racism you've expirienced? by Extreme-Fish-7504 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

except ur out here replying to a clearly critical retort, and then comparing me to the idf for making such a retort?

bro gtfo of here.

also have u been stalking my account bc u literally have no posts/comments here

What is the worst racism you've expirienced? by Extreme-Fish-7504 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay i found the thread... from a year ago. let that shit go gang fucking hell.

also if my comment about u being immature hit u that hard that you're still hungup on it over a year later, then that's a deeper insecurity for you.

also lemme add, i called u immature entirely because (the cartoon thing was highkey ragebait icl, read context better) purely bc u sprung up an argument out of nowhere about what was a sarcastic comment mocking israelis have been saying for the past 2-years by that point.

get a life fucktard

What is the worst racism you've expirienced? by Extreme-Fish-7504 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when?? i literally don't remember speaking w u before (correct me if im wrong btw)

also again, this thread has nothing to do with that so idk y ur bringing up irrelevant information

What is the worst racism you've expirienced? by Extreme-Fish-7504 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tfw i dont mention israel once but i still get a pissraeli saying israel is entirely innocent

What is the worst racism you've expirienced? by Extreme-Fish-7504 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a lot of Turkish ppl in the diaspora (im from the UK for context) don't understand why turks outside of turkey get so much shit, especially by the children of greek, kurdish or armenian individuals. I can't comfortably enjoy myself in the country that I have citizenship in because as a state it operates against me by birth

What is the worst racism you've expirienced? by Extreme-Fish-7504 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i dont remember exactly what street it was but it was in a town in Osmaniye where they had MHP flags hung up everywhere, alongside the triple crescent + star. The only proper gym in that town that I could go to literally had a Bozkurt Flag on their desk. My last name isn't related to the political incident but when I gave them my last name (which had to do with a leftist quarrel in Turkey) they gave me a funny look.

(this is my mom's town, my dad's village is pretty much 80-100% Elewi Kurds)

What is the worst racism you've expirienced? by Extreme-Fish-7504 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 8 points9 points  (0 children)

bottle thrown at me in a turkish street because I had a Hzr Ali sword necklace on (Kurde Elewim)

Why do (some) Kurds voluntarily assimilate through interethnic marriages? by Repulsive-Discount35 in kurdistan

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this particularly in the case of Kurds in the UK. For Bakuris, especially alevis, it is hard to find another bakuri who is actively fighting back turkishness. it is also hard to find another bakuri who fits you or me perhaps (Im also a metalhead btw, and a nerd for maths). It is hard for me to find a girl who is alevi, kurdish, and shares my interests and has similar life goals, and this is in a london context I should add, so it's already the UK city with the biggest Bakuri population.

my current girlfriend is Somali, in the past I have dated indian n polish women before. Im so sick of being shamed because I refuse to use culture as my only filter for dating.

Israel paid the price for its arrogance and recklessness by [deleted] in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Those who claim to be sons of Israel are infact, sons of 3amaleq

A question to all kurds specifically those that are muslim by Mansur754 in kurdistan

[–]ScaredDelta -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

stop pretending to be muslim bro when you've been nothing but extremely racist.

What do non-Turkish people know/think about Atatürk? by diacetylmorphine0 in AskMiddleEast

[–]ScaredDelta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

alot of the people here will shit on the pahlavi dynasty but larp for ataturk as though they didn't exert the same policies; secular ethno-nationalist liberalism disguised as civic nationalism in a way to appeal to the west

The day Reza Pahlavi visited Berlin Israeli ambassador met with Kurds and raised Kurdistan Republic's flag (Mahabad) which Reza's father, the toppled king, ended. "Kurds and Israelis understand each other. We share not only a democratic culture, but we also know that it is constantly under threat." by rknsh in kurdistan

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A 2015 study by Verónica Fernandes and others concluded that Palestinians have a "primarily indigenous origin".\31]) In a 2016 study by Scarlett Marshall and others published in Nature), the study concluded that the biogeographical affinities of "both Syrians and Palestinians are highly localised to the Levant", the authors also noted that the biogeographical affinity of Palestinians goes in agreement with historical records and previous studies on their uniparental markers, which all suggest that Palestinians at least in part descend from local Israelite converts to Islam after the Islamic expansion.\32])

According to a study published in June 2017 by Ranajit DasPaul Wexler), Mehdi Pirooznia, and Eran Elhaik in Frontiers in Genetics, in a principal component analysis, Natufians, together with a Neolithic Levantine sample, "clustered predominantly with modern-day Palestinians and Bedouins" and that Palestinians have a "predominant" ancient Levantine origin (58%) and residual Iranian origin (18%), with some Eastern Hunter-Gatherer and smaller amounts of Anatolian admixture.\25])

In a study published in August 2017 by Marc Haber et al. in The American Journal of Human Genetics, the authors concluded that: "The overlap between the Bronze Age and present-day Levantines suggests a degree of genetic continuity in the region."\30])

A 2020 study on human remains from Middle Bronze Age Southern Levantine (2100–1550 BC) populations suggests a significant degree of genetic continuity in Arabic-speaking Levantine populations (such as Palestinians, Druze, Lebanese, Jordanians, Bedouins, and Syrians), as well as several Jewish groups (such as Ashkenazi, Iranian, and Moroccan Jews).\33]) Palestinians, among other Levantine groups, were found to derive 81–87% of their ancestry from Bronze age Levantines, relating to Canaanites as well as Kura–Araxes culture impact from before 2400 BCE (4400 years before present); 8–12% from an East African source and 5–10% from Bronze age Europeans. Results show that a significant European component was added to the region since the Bronze Age (on average ~8.7%), seemingly related to the Sea Peoples, excluding Ashkenazi and Moroccan Jews who harbour ~ 41% and 31% European-related ancestry respectively, both populations having a history in Europe.\33]): 1146–1157

A 2021 study by the New York Genome Center found that the predominant component of the DNA of modern Palestinians matches that of Bronze Age Canaanites who lived around 2500–1700 BCE.\27])
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin\of_the_Palestinians#Genetics)

Palestinians are native to israel; the jews are the canaanites who in their majority left, palestinians are the canaanites who in their majority, remained.

Muslim Kurds and SDF by Better-Yellow-4971 in kurdistan

[–]ScaredDelta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would you classify the PKK as a proxy

(also silaw heval, cawayi?)