Europe overran by Asiatic steppe peoples

Actually, genetically speaking, they are Anatolian. Greek had only supplanted the last of the native Anatolian languages a few centuries before the Turks arrived.

Okay, in that case, genetically Anatolians who were briefly Greek on account of speaking Greek languages, and are now Turks on account of speaking Turkish. In any case, they have not been supplanted by migrations as suggested by some in this thread.
 
Okay, in that case, genetically Anatolians who were briefly Greek on account of speaking Greek languages, and are now Turks on account of speaking Turkish. In any case, they have not been supplanted by migrations as suggested by some in this thread.
Indeed. There was a study that suggested that actual Turkic genes represented less then 10% of the genetic makeup of modern Turks. Personally, I think that short of genocide of the existing population, Steppe nomads just can't make that much of a dent on the genetics of settled people.
 
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