Photo, A group of Ashkenazic Jews in Jerusalem, circa 1885

New research suggests that the majority of the world's modern Jewish population is descended mainly from people from ancient Turkey, rather than predominantly from elsewhere in the Middle East.

The new research suggests that most of the Jewish population of northern and eastern Europe - normally known as Ashkenazic Jews - are the descendants of Greeks, Iranians and others who colonized what is now northern Turkey more than 2000 years ago and were then converted to Judaism, probably in the first few centuries AD by Jews from Persia. At that stage, the Persian Empire was home to the world's largest Jewish communities.

According to research carried out by the geneticist, Dr Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield, over 90 per cent of Ashkenazic ancestors come from that converted partially Greek-originating ancient community in north-east Turkey.

Comment: Remember this the next time your hear Netanyahu, or any other radical Zionist, say that the Jewish people are justified in stealing and occupying Palestinian land because their 'people' ruled it for thousands of years. It's plainly and simply nonsense. And even if the logic were justified (it isn't), the vast majority of Jews should go to Turkey, not "Israel".
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