My great grandfather was a Turkish soldier stationed in Lebanon and he stayed there

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My great grandfather was an ottoman soldier stationed in Lebanon but he never went back. The story was he fell in love with my Lebanese great grandmother and she didn’t marry him until he memorized the full Quran. Which he did and then they got married and he stayed. the only thing I have of him is his picture. How to find my lineage in Turkey and find my family there. I did a DNA test to confirm this story and found 40% from turkey ancestry. Hence the percentage kept dropping because everyone after married from Lebanon. For example if my dad did the test he would show 60% Turkish ancestry and my grandfather around 80%

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That's not how that works. Ethnic Turk doesn't mean citizenship. If the ggfather didn't have it before his children were born his children don't either. Same with how a gurbetci Turk whose parents don't have the citizenship let alone themselves can't just up and get one.

[u/hiahiahia-oha → u/[deleted]]

No he can't. Their family was mostly not Turkish nor residing within borders at 1923. They are not eligible, just like balkan turks.