Are Greek Cypriots hellenised middle easterners or ethnically greek ?

[CALMONE20###]

Cyprus is technically in the middle east. Of course they speak Greek,but some people say yes they are middle easterners who went through the process of hellenisation others say they are greeks who settled on the island. Share your opinions.

 

[JohnCena]

 

[reer_ugaas_hussein]

Cyprus is technically in the middle east. Of course they speak Greek,but some people say yes they are middle easterners who went through the process of hellenisation others say they are greeks who settled on the island. Share your opinions.

I think the genetic studies do show thay cypriots are moslty a mix between greek ancestry and levantine ancestry. So I would mostly view them as a mix between levantine middle easterners and greeks genetically and as europeans culturally.

 

[The alchemist]

Greeks are heterogeneous because of the complex dynamics of history and geography. Cypriots are Greeks, but they are considerably Levantine. They might have around half of their DNA from the Levant and some extra stuff from Asia Minor, the rest from Southern European. There are Turks in Cyprus that cluster genetically close to the Greek inhabitants. They are Turkish, not Greek.