The Turkish DNA debate has become an international meme, with Chinese content creators now joining in.
But this didn’t emerge from a vacuum.
For decades, Turkish nationalism has promoted narratives of racial purity and ethnic homogeneity.
Modern genetics is exposing the weakness of those narratives—and that is precisely why DNA has become so uncomfortable for nationalists invested in them..
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