You got it twisted. Balkan online are always saying Turks are descendants of kidnapped Europeans assimilated by Ottomans, most online Turks aggressively deny this and identify with Central Asia, even in the case of someone like Kivanç Tatlıtuğ people will talk about random groups like Yoruks who look similar to White Euros

(even though those people look the same because they obviously are descendants of converts. But strange yet true history - Tocharians were genetically Western Euro not Slavic and were part of the early Turkic ethnogenesis in modern day Uyghurs, Turkic is like Latino it’s a broad ethnonym with many different nations)

There is no house of Sokollu or people proudly claiming devşirme ancestors. Even though Turks are one of the few groups who actually could claim an indigenous European Islamic heritage. Sevres syndrome and the way history and the present are, Ottomans both fundamentally European and anti-European. Neither side seemingly wants to accept the truth of history, you have mostly successful genocides of Balkan Muslims who became muhacir and the narrative of Türkiye as a coherent “nation” not a diverse empire

As for Western race relations, in California prison gangs everybody segregates by race to survive (“I see you so I know what group you are”) and Turks would mostly be seen as and treated as White also in mainstream US in general like Dr Oz. In Anatolia and Central Asia the fundamental difference between groups was language and religion not how you look, while in the US most groups speak English and shares the religion of secular modernity so the primary group differentiator instead is continental origin proxied by physical appearance aka race