Quora精选：土耳其文化算不算欧洲文化？

Is Turkish Culture European Culture?

土耳其文化算欧洲文化吗？

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What is European? Greek? German? Swedish?

什么是欧洲文化？希腊文化？德国文化？瑞典文化？

Turkish culture is turkic culture with a lot of influences from other Middle Eastern/Anatolian cultures (i.e. Armenia, Anatolian Greeks, Kurds, etc) and European.

土耳其文化是受到其他中东文化、安纳托利亚文化（即亚美尼亚文化、安纳托利亚的希腊文化以及库尔德文化等）和欧洲文化影响的突厥文化。

Turkish culture shares a lot with Greek, but essentially nothing with say, German.

土耳其文化与希腊文化有许多共同之处，但是换个欧洲国家，比如德国，两者的差别就大相径庭了。

Turkey has been in the crossroads of Europe and Asia and a large center for many cultures.

土耳其一直处于欧洲和亚洲的十字路口，是众多文化的交汇中心。

Even each region in Turkey has a distinct tradition from another. Western Turkey is more similar to Greece and Balkans while Eastern Turkey is more similar to Kurdish and Armenian (of course with many Turkic elements as the origins are from Central Asia).

甚至连土耳其各地区之间都存在显著的文化传统差异。土耳其西部与希腊和巴尔干地区更为相似。土耳其东部则更类似于库尔德和亚美尼亚地区，当然，那里有许多起源于中亚的突厥元素。

Final Conclusion: No, it is not European but rather a blend of Anatolian, Central Asian (Turkic), and European (mostly Greece and Balkan countries) cultures.

最后总结一下：土耳其文化不是欧洲文化，而是安纳托利亚、中亚（突厥）和欧洲（主要是希腊和巴尔干国家）文化的混合体。

（翻译：Frank）