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Originally Posted by herenow1
She is probably had great grandparents from Eastern Europe who forefathers were Slavic Muslim converts and moved into Turkey, during the fall of the Ottoman empire in Europe.
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OR, more realistically I ascribe it to a slave trade.
"The slave trade was the backbone of the economy of the Crimean Khanate.
[30][31] However, some historians are of the opinion that the role of the slave trade in the economy of the Crimean Khanate is greatly exaggerated by modern historians, and the raiding economy is nothing but a historical myth.
[32]
The Crimeans frequently mounted raids into the
Danubian principalities,
Poland-Lithuania, and
Muscovy to enslave people whom they could capture; for each captive, the khan received a fixed share (savÄŸa) of 10% or 20%. These campaigns by Crimean forces were either
sefers ("sojourns"), officially declared military operations led by the khans themselves, or
çapuls ("despoiling"), raids undertaken by groups of noblemen, sometimes illegally because they contravened treaties concluded by the khans with neighbouring rulers.
For a long time, until the early 18th century,
the khanate maintained a massive slave trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, exporting about 2 million slaves from Russia and Poland-Lithuania over the period 1500–1700.[33] Caffa (an Ottoman city on Crimean peninsula) was one of the best known and significant trading ports and slave markets,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea...te#Slave_trade
That's where this "blond look" that Turks like to claim as "their own" comes from in my opinion - from Europeans abducted from their native lands.