italian dna in the middle east?

[brailosa]

my mom is from baghdad, but she's not ethnically arab. she's turkic, descendent from the bayat tribe. look it up on wikipedia.

i used ancestryDNA, and i used dna land. my ancestryDNA results says i'm 30% caucasus, 12% middle eastern, and 1% italy/greece. and i know the italy/greece thing came from my moms said because it made more sense. (the rest of my dna is from europe east, my dads side. he's most likely from belarusian area).

now when i did dna land to invesigate further of my ancestryDNA results, i got 32% central indoeuropean (caucasus basically), 4% central asia, and then 22% south/central european. this definitely not came from my dad's side, his family history doesn't add up to it. also, i had no arab or levantine.

my question is, did north/central italians invade turkey and they stuck their dna on the population? or was this a margin of error? since north/central italians share similar dna with the turks?

 

[Blanco]

my question is, did north/central italians invade turkey and they stuck their dna on the population? or was this a margin of error? since north/central italians share similar dna with the turks?

To answer your question no, there is a shared gene pool between West Eurasian groups and calculators ain't accurate to tell what exactly your nationality is, so if you have 1% more Mediterranean genetic component than your "ethnic group average" this may falsely be processed as let's say 95% Baghdad + 5% French, while you have no real French whatsoever in your veins.

 

[Hauteville]

Roman expansion in Mesopotamia with Adriano.

 

[Pratt]

1% italy/greece is nothing, and it could be also Greek ancestry.

 

[Jovialis]

Perhaps that 1% is a remnant of Anatolian Greeks. There were Hellenistic people living there.

"By that time, the populations were a mixture of the ancient Anatolian or "Syro-Hittite" substrate and post-Bronze-Age-collapse "Thraco-Phrygian" and more recent Greco-Macedonian incursions."[1]
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia#Classical_antiquity