Comments by "William Davis" (@williamdavis9562) on "Omar of the Orient" channel.

süleymankaraca-w5l All those Greek speakers in Anatolia weren't Greek. They were conquered by the Greeks and assimilated into Hellenic culture. Then those same people who were assimilated by the Greeks were then taken over by Turkic tribes and then assimilated into Turkic culture. The vast majority of people simply assimilated, 1000 years is a long time. The few who didn't assimilate were those minority groups you're referring too. I get it, this is an emotional topic for you but facts are facts. Again there is a very high probability you're an indigenous Anatolian yourself. Go to the North Caucasus and Central Asia and meet some real Turkic people. They are nothing like the Anatolians. They look different and more importantly they act different. They aren't emotional train wrecks nor are they as selfish and insanely greedy and corrupt as Anatolians. Also they don't inbreed and cause genetic damage to their children like Anatolians do.
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süleymankaraca-w5l Diluted or not diluted when they arrived. Doesn't change the fact assimilated Anatolians still comprised the vast majority of people who live in Turkey today. Also claiming the Jannisaries changed the genetic make up of the entire region is complete insanity. Their numbers were never big enough to make any sort of dent into the gene pool worth noting. Not to mention they weren't very spread out either even if their numbers were high enough to make a significant change (which it wasn't) Again I get that this is seriously emotional for you and you need to clutch at straws. But you need to make more rational arguments, what you're saying is insanity. The numbers just don't add up. Nor does the science.
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süleymankaraca-w5l Do you have any idea how many jannisaries you'd need and how evenly spread out they'd need to be to get an effect of 15%-20% on a gene pool? Yes you'd need Jannisaries to account for nearly 20% of the population. Are you under the assumption that at any given time the amount of jannisaries were that high and that evenly spread out? That is insane. Even at the height of military prowess of the Ottoman Empire which was the mid 1500s, the Jannisaries probably accounted for about .0005% of the population. As far as a gene pool goes, it is something they call statistical insignificance. WW1 and post WW2 migration of Muslims from the Balkans into the Ottoman empire and then Turkiye did more to introduce Balkan genetics into Anatolia's gene pool than any amount of Jannisaries ever could. It is a childish argument to use that Jannisaries altered Anatolia's genetic makeup.
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@albania881 China.
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@BabaAmin29. Like the Turks are the sleeping giants in Central Asia. The Nigerians are the sleeping giant in Africa. Both will wake up soon
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Can you tell us a bit more about who the Hazaras are? I'm quite ignorant about the different Afghan tribes and their history.
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@TirabintaToktik-hz1lx technology is technology.
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@Krasno- If you're referring to the people in Turkey. You're probably right.
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@Tolabay, Someone should do a video on the Giray family. Tatars have a beautiful culture. I remember having an extremely interesting run in with some Tatars at a hospital years ago.
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@regenahregenah6510 They did civilize you guys for a short time no?
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