🌿 Blood Between Coasts and Mountains
From olive hills of Denizli’s sun,
Where Aegean winds through stone homes run,
The roots grow deep, three-fourths the frame,
Aegean Turk by tongue and name.
Yet whispers trace a second line,
Through southern heat and steeper spine.
Did grandpa ride from Adana’s shore,
Or Malatya’s steppe, where Kurds once wore
Their woven tales, in songs half-said —
A shadowed path the bloodline led.
A sliver stirs—Kurdish or south?
No map can place it word for mouth.
Only that in a time gone thin,
One ancestor was folded in.
So here they stand, this modern soul,
Not west, not east, but nearly whole.
And what they carry, clear or blurred,
Is not a flag — but something heard.
🧬 Genetic Summary (Formal Style):
The tested individual exhibits approximately 75% autosomal similarity to populations from the inner-Aegean region of Turkey, especially Denizli and Aydın. This suggests deep familial roots in western Anatolia. However, the remaining ~25% of the genome contains signals consistent with populations from southern and southeastern Turkey, including a ~16% “Kurd USSR” component and ~8.8% “Turkish South.” These markers could derive from either the Mediterranean coastal regions (e.g. Antalya or Adana) or the Kurdish-adjacent interior (e.g. Malatya–Gaziantep corridor). As such, a Kurdish ancestral contribution is possible, though not definitively confirmed. No meaningful Levantine, European, or South Asian ancestry is detected beyond the baseline Anatolian genetic mosaic.