A focused population profile of Turks from Adana, their southern Anatolian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Adana is a major city and province in southern Turkey, located in the Cilicia plain near the eastern Mediterranean. The region has long connected central Anatolia, the Taurus Mountains, northern Syria, and the eastern Mediterranean coast.
Turkish is the main language, while the broader region has also been shaped by historical Armenian, Arab, Kurdish, Greek, and other communities. A Turkish Adana reference should therefore be read as a southern Anatolian profile rather than a single national average for all Turks.
In genetic comparisons, Adana is useful because southern Anatolia can sit between central Anatolian, eastern Mediterranean, Caucasus, and northern Levantine contexts.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, Turkish Adana is closest to Turkish Afyonkarahisar Northeast, Turkish Hatay, Turkish Kirikkale, Turkish Kirsehir, Turkish Osmaniye, and Turkish Burdur. The ranking keeps the profile inside a Turkish Anatolian cluster while showing its southern regional context.
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The ancestry model gives deep component proportions, while the closest-match table shows modern similarity. Turkish Adana is best read as a southern Anatolian Turkish reference, with strong links to other Turkish regional averages.
The heatmap should emphasize Anatolia, especially southern and central Turkish references, with nearby affinity toward Hatay, Osmaniye, and broader eastern Mediterranean zones.
Yes. Turkish Adana clusters with other Turkish Anatolian regional references in the World Genetics comparison.
Turkish Hatay appears among the closest matches to Turkish Adana, which makes sense for neighboring southern Anatolian regions.
It can be slightly regional, but in this dataset Turkish Adana still matches central and southern Turkish references closely.
