MyHeritageDNA Test (Cyprus)

[@ilkaynorthcyprus5731]

I am Turkish Cypriot by birth and got my results too, 88% Cypriot, 7% Levantine and only 3% Turkish and 1% Greek...and I come from a Turkish nationalist family, hard to believe..

[@Ramazansmrk571]

İnanma zaten türklerin oğuz boyunu dna testinde yansıtmıyorlar

[@wzupppp]

interesting. I believe most Turks are actually turkified greeks

[@erhanaksu5160]

Nice video man! As a Turkish Cypriot I ended up having 52% Greek and South Italian DNA, which just goes to show we're not very different :)

[@Kikap6001]

A lot of Turks are of Greek ancestry, their forefathers would have converted to islam

[@christosadamou4468]

Hi my friend thank you! You have more Greek than me! 😃 Indeed we are not, Kika below has a solid point as we were the same peoples until the Ottoman era. I do not want to come across as bias but yes during the ottoman era Cypriots would have converted to Islam either by themselves or forcibly through having to pay heavy taxes or face the consequences. Many Cypriots were crypto Christians may have acted like they converted but practiced the faith underground.

[@Kikap6001]

@@christosadamou4468 Hi Christos, I would like to add that the Mizrahi and Sephardic DNA is still there as we mainly married within our own

[@christosadamou4468]

@@Kikap6001 Hello Kika, I am finding it difficult to trace my Jewish Heritage. I would be interested to find out more. Would you like to send me an email please to [e-mail]. Thanks 😊🙏🏼

[@erhanaksu5160]

@@christosadamou4468 Don't worry my friend, it's not biased at all, you can't really argue with history! I am as proud of my Turkish culture as you guys are with your Greek culture, but at the end of the day we are both the same, after all we both love kebap and souvlaki, whatever we call it 😃

[@stylianosmetaxas2204]

My dna came back. 5% greek 15% italian 35% turkish 45% middle eastern

[@melissaadamou9346]

This is so interesting! I'm also Greek Cypriot (with the same surname!) and I've recently sent off a DNA test myself to find out my heritage.

[@andy1992uk]

Both the Italian greek with be ancient greek. The rest is likely phoenician. Cypriots are mix between greeks, phoenicians and native Cypriots like minoans. Phoenicians and greeks were the two major settlements. Ottoman impact and Venetian is minimal.

[@Paraglidecrete]

The ancient Phoenicians were from Argos Greece

[@debo2128]

Concerning West Asia : real Turkish is Central Asia Turkic. You can check my heritage statistics by country you'll see that Turks got all their neighboors DNA + Central Asia Turkic. Don't forget Turks came in Western Asia only in 11 century AD. There were people there before them, folks !!

[@welp5657]

Actually turks were in north caucasus for much earlier than 11 century AD since it’s quite close to the eurasian steppes

[@debo2128]

@@welp5657 Turks started coming in today Turkey, at the end of 11th century AD. Concerning northern Caucasus, maybe Turkic, not Turks we mean it today.

[@AndreaS-ns1qp]

Interesting findings, thank you for sharing your results. I am half “Greek” Cypriot on my mother’s side, I’ve done DNA test myself and as mentioned by other commenters other companies do call out “Cyprus” as its own identity - I know this is true for Living DNA and Ancestry test results. While Cyprus today has mainly two ethnic divides of people that associate themselves cultural as “Greek” or “Turkish”, largely everyone of any lengthy Cypriot origin is actually a mix of the different groups that habituated on the island. You mentioned a few, the Phoenicians, Venetians, Greeks (largely those of the Peloponnese and also close ties to the Minoans of ancient Crete), West Asia and Africa. To have a better understand of Cypriot genetics, it helps to go back deeper into history during the times of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Historically, Cyprus is now largest acknowledged to be the ancient Kingdom of Alashiya. Other ancient people during that time frame that left their generic print on Cyprus are the Canaanite people of the Levent and the Hittites of Anatolia. I theorize that most of “West Asian” DNA that Cypriot’s share is likely from the Hittites, as they had a large empire that extent past Anatolia into Mesopotamia and the Levent, including Cyprus. Here is link to an interesting video of the history of Cyprus back when it was known as Alashiya: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gniqnIivp6mSq5Y and it talks about many of the ancient people that inhabited Cyprus. Interestingly enough, Cypriot people, whether they lay claim to being Greek or Turkish, share common ancestors. Here is link to a scientific journal on generic finding of Cypriots: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179474 This all goes to show, we should all be proud to have ties to a beautiful island with unique, rich and diverse history of cultures from many regions: Continental Europe, the islands and countries boarding the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Asia Minor, Africa and even Arab proper. They all left their mark on the island’s history and all contributed to the people Cypriots are today. In the end, we should all be kind and respectful to each other… the more we learn about history and genetics, the more we should all see that we are all brothers and sisters and are far more like then we are different no matter where we come from and how we choose to identify culturally ✌️🕊

[@June-dm8dc]

η Κύπρος είναι Ελλάδα

[@axr4832]

🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾

[@dionf3858]

Your west Asian heritage is indigenous Anatolian who were part of the Greek world for thousands of years

[@dionf3858]

@styletube lol ur clueless

[@dionf3858]

@styletube it’s all subjective isn’t it

[@sicilian845]

Correction: 36% Greek Ellinas🇬🇷❤ (Greek+ a 10% Italian as it's confused part+ Ashkenazi+ Nigerian which is a bug) 37,5% Iranic-caucasian (Mizrahi and West Asian togheter which are the same ethnicity) And for North African and Middle East comes both from Arab invasion of Kypros and from Phoenicians. All this because MyHeritage has low databeses that confuses some gene with others! KEEP IT IN MIND THIS MY CORRECTION and be more proud to be Ellinas ADELFOS!🇬🇷❤😘

[@eternalspirit81]

Just goes to show all Cypriots the same regardless if they call themselves Greek, Turkish or whatever

[@RussianWithViolettaShostak]

Thank you for your video!

[@christosadamou4468]

Thank you, Violetta! 😃

[@wzupppp]

I think the West African came from your North African ancestors. Many north africans have some sub saharan ancestry. Btw, before the the Romans (Italians) were Phoenicians who settled in Cyprus. So your middle eastern dna might be older than your italian

[@mikegriego21]

Nice results, it doesn’t matter you don’t have a lot Greek because you have Greek culture. Is Ivi Adamou your relative?

[@costheo3825]

My DNA test 98% Cypriot 2% middle eastern. Great video

[@videolandik]

Great video brother.

[@christosadamou4468]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@MustafaKulle]

Hello fellow Cypriot. We have very similar results. Thanks for sharing dude. 😆

[@christosadamou4468]

My pleasure brother

[@user-xk9qg8ft7x]

Great results, your so good looking

[@christosadamou4468]

Thank you dear

[@paulr5465]

Excellent video! From which cities of Cyprus do your parents hail from?

[@christosadamou4468]

Famagusta

[@reginawade7370]

My daughter pulled 33% Greek Cypriot from her dad's side of the family which I was not shocked.

[@teachervitors.5694]

West Asian should be the ancestors of Anatolian and West Indo-Iranians peoples in the region around 5.000 thousands years ago. Another tag they gave to East Indo-Iranians in MyHeritage is Eastern European.

[@vidav1058]

I am Greek Cypriot and I have only 7% Greek.

[@ΝεκτάριοςΧριστοφή-σ5δ]

These are quite inaccurate first of all so it's not that simple. Greeks from the Myceneans and onwards had many genetic groups because the Myceneans and later Greeks mixed and Hellenized many areas like Cyprus, Crete, Asia Minor etc. West Asian(the Asia Minor part) was before the Turks from people living in Asia Minor and adjacent areas. Also the part from Mesopotamia was very influential in the whole Middle East and the original population of Cyprus maybe was in this Dna group. So it was from antiquity not from the Ottomans, Ottomans had little influence and their Dna also had much of the indigenus hellenized or not people of Asia Minor.

[@suegreene1]

Those percentages don't go that far back

[@Ilk-adimmusluman-soy-adimTurk.]

What is your haplogroup?

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

The Cypriots are Greeks.

[@Kikap6001]

The Script on the MOABITE STONE are REVERSED Ancient Greek aka CYPRIOT Letters. I have many videos Proving all that I say

[@UltimateMoralizer]

Μιλάς καθόλου ελληνικά;

[@Ilk-adimmusluman-soy-adimTurk.]

Many Cypriots have black African ancestry. I am the same also. I can go back four generations and I have a very dark skinned black ancestor. Whom in the 1800's was a shop owner in larnaka and who married a Greek Cypriot lady.

[@Readyteddygo]

“Many Cypriots have black African ancestry” No, they don’t

[@emilyzitioun3789]

@KIKA P2 north Africans where not black

[@ΝεκτάριοςΧριστοφή-σ5δ]

What is black African ancestry? Africa has so many unrelated groups, a person from Sudan has little to do with a Nigerian for example and so on...

[@Kikap6001]

​​@@emilyzitioun3789 yes they are Who are the people in NUBIA SUDAN NORTH AFRICA They are so called Black are they not

[@emilyzitioun3789]

@@Kikap6001 no honey,Nubians and blacks are not counted as north Africans .cmon don't be stupid lol 😂

[@shaolindreams]

Hello cousin.. Im a Londoner too with a Greek Cypriot father.. Just got my results they are very similar to yours but different percentages. If you want to see your actual father and mother roots i suggest using LivingDNA.

[@shaolindreams]

@Free Man Yeah Southern Italians share a lot of DNA with Greeks that they are classed in the same group. So it just means Greek basically.

[@shaolindreams]

​@Free Man With MyHeritage i believe it just as i said, the "Greek/South Italian" classification just means Greek which included Southern Italian.. Most Greeks will have this classfication even if their family never was in Italy. The admixture doesn't matter we are mainly from the same source.

[@arisalphas274]

Re manka, lighten mbro, when you pass from the flesh you will be 💯 % eternal and greater than Alexandra or Ghengis Khan!

[@stelvis1984ify]

Wow that's alot of Jewish, where abouts in Cyprus are your parents/family from? What villages? Check my results on my page, I got no Jewish Dna at all. My family is from a village called Pachna, in the Troodos mountains, in between Lemesos and Paphos

[@alashiya9536]

I think you're interpreting the results incorrectly. The components of your make-up are likely much older than the Ottoman era. The eteo-Cypriot make-up itself is probably enough to justify Western Asian heritage, eteo-Cypriots came from Levantine and Southern Turkey tens of thousands of years ago so are thus Western Asians by definition. Turkish Cypriots are very similar to Greek Cypriots because up until the Ottoman conquest they were the same population (eteo-Cypriot / Greek mix), but since then have had influences from Ottomans (including Asian and Northern African heritage)

[@grpanth1890]

Pretty sure they are myceoneans

[@axr4832]

No I’m pure Cypriot and I’m only 4% Greek and 96% Cypriot so

[@christosadamou4468]

Helllo Kyriacos, I understand your argument but when I refer to the ottoman era I am pointing out that it is not far fetched for Cypriots to have ottoman blood. Maybe the western Asian is as you see Turk or from the Greek population that inhabited it before the Turks settled there, but there is no way to know for sure. We see some very dark Cypriots and some very light Cypriots so some are of European ancestry and some are eastern ancestry. My results show a quarter of everything that was in the region throughout history Greek, Italian , West Asian and Jewish.

[@alashiya9536]

@@christosadamou4468 of course it's not impossible. It likely happened just not that much. Your Western Asian component is most likely due to Northern Levantine and Anatolian farmer migrations to Cyprus of the Paleolithic and Neolithic. The Ottoman contribution was probably minimal due to religion. During the 300+ years of Ottoman Cyprus it was the Christians that were converting to Islam, not vice versa, as they were at a disadvantage due to Islam being the religion of the ruling class and also due to the non-muslim "jizya" tax. So Ottoman (think Muslim) genetic contribution (balkan, anatolian,levantine, magreb etc.) was mostly within the muslim population. Your Jewish component ultimate origin is likely from the same source (pre-arab Levantine)

[@maniacgr2617]

@@axr4832 What means 96% Cypriot? What is the Cypriot dna?

[@بثينةكيك]

أنت تشبه العرب

[@sicilian845]

What's the percentuages of Jewish and Nigerian?

[@christosadamou4468]

I have a total combination of 19,2% Jewish and 0,8 Nigerian.

[@sicilian845]

@@christosadamou4468 so it scored you 19% ashkenazi?

[@christosadamou4468]

@@sicilian845 No Mizrahi

[@christosadamou4468]

@@sicilian845 I have 2,8% ashekanazi

[@22poopoo]

@@christosadamou4468 my heritage always scores higher than other sites for Jewish dna. Maybe because they are based in Israel. There's no such thing as a national DNA. It's just what it 'looks like' compared to an average person from that population group sampled. If there is no Cyprus as a reference population the approximation will be very inaccurate. Jewish and Cypriot DNA happen to be very similar. The original settles to Cyprus were from the Levant.

[@donaldharper2978]

my results came in, im part cyprus. wth

[@June-dm8dc]

μην ανησυχείς , δυτική ασία ΔΕΝ σημαίνει τουρκικό dna , πολύ πριν εμφανιστούν οι τούρκοι υπήρχαν γηγενείς πληθυσμοί που εξισλαμίστηκαν στη συνέχεια , αν ήσουν τούρκος θα σου έβγαζε μογγολικό dna . Ελληνας είσαι .