TURKS ARE NOT MIDDLE EASTERN: My OSINT-Based Demographic and Crime Analysis for the European Right

 Let’s skip the pleasantries and get straight to the point.

Every day, looking at the data on my desk, I see the biggest analytical error of the rising nationalist and anti-immigrant right-wing politics in the Western world and Europe: coding every demographic group coming from the East as a homogeneous block under the label of “Middle Eastern” or the “Islamic geography.” The justified concerns caused by refugee crises, gang wars, and the collapse of public order are, unfortunately, falling victim to this sweeping and shallow orientalist illusion. However, historical, genetic, and criminological data — my actual field of expertise — do not lie: We Turks are not Middle Eastern.

Our genetic, cultural, and sociological codes are a unique synthesis nourished by the steppe organizational skills of Central Asia, the proud and warrior resistance of the Caucasus, the maritime and productive vision of the Aegean and Mediterranean, and the millennia-old statecraft of Anatolia. While Middle Eastern and African geographies are shaped by tribalism, clan ties, and statelessness (chaos), the Turkish culture I belong to is built upon a millennia-old tradition of “State, Order, and Custom” (Devlet, Nizam ve Töre). We recognize authority and the law; instead of establishing a parallel society based on clan rules where we go, we integrate into the system and refuse to disrupt public order.

This claim is not some abstract nationalist rhetoric; it is a concrete, measurable Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) fact, proven by the official institutions of European states themselves. The data that will allow Western anti-immigrant factions to focus on their actual targets is hidden right here in the Scandinavian field, which I am currently in and analyzing like a laboratory.

Scandinavian Immigrant Crime Statistics: Raw Data and Our Position

Let’s talk directly by laying the raw data trends of official crime and statistics institutes (Sweden’s Brå, Norway’s SSB, Danmarks Statistik) on the table. As an analyst, saying “the crime rate of Turks is zero, we commit no crimes” would be irrational; there is not a single ethnic or demographic group in the world with an absolute zero crime rate, it defies the nature of the system. However, our crime rate is dramatically low and a mere drop in the ocean compared to the actual problematic immigrant groups that are currently driving state mechanisms to the blue screen of death in Scandinavia.

Let me decode the x-ray of the ethnic origin and crime correlation across Scandinavia piece by piece with official data:

🇸🇪 1. The Swedish Field (Brå Data and Gang Wars) Sweden is currently a complete data battlefield for me, as it ranks at the top in Europe for gang criminology (gangkriminalitet) and bombings. According to the Crime Prevention Council (Brå) and police reports, the ethnic breakdown of the human resources feeding organized crime networks (like the Foxtrot, Rumba, and Shottaz gangs) is clear:

The Real Crisis Hotspots: The groups showing massive overrepresentation in heavy armed gang wars, drug logistics, and street executions are primarily second- and third-generation masses from North Africa (especially Morocco, Algeria), East Africa (Somalia), and specific regions of the Middle East (Iraq, Syria).

Our Situation: We Turks are almost never involved in such large organized crime networks and gang wars. The legal incidents we are involved in generally remain within the boundaries of isolated, commercial, or local public order issues. Since the Turkish immigrant profile generally establishes its financial sovereignty in real sectors like tradesmanship, restaurant management, construction, and logistics, our crime tendency graph is much closer to Sweden’s local baseline (native population) rates.

🇩🇰 2. The Danish Filter (Danmarks Statistik Indices) Statistics Denmark publishes crime rates with a very strict index that normalizes the age and socioeconomic status of countries of origin (assuming equal conditions for everyone). In this system, where 100 points represent native Danes, the picture is this:

Ethnic Groups at the Top: Even in the normalized index, people of Lebanese (especially stateless Palestinians), Somali, Moroccan, Iraqi, and Pakistani origin score the highest in crime rates. The index values of these groups rise to 2 to 3 times that of the local population.

Our Situation: Turks are positioned in the lower-middle ranks in this index. Although we are categorized as non-Western immigrants, thanks to our high labor force participation rate and our discipline of adapting to the Danish order, our crime index scores are far, far behind the crisis-oriented Middle Eastern and North African groups mentioned above.

🇳🇴 3. The Norwegian Analysis (SSB Reports) The algorithm does not change in the immigrant and crime reports published by Statistics Norway (SSB) either.

Problem Clusters: The groups that show statistical overconcentration in heavy criminal cases such as violence, extortion, and drug trafficking are again Somali, Iraqi, Afghan, and Moroccan asylum seekers and immigrant masses.

Our Situation: The Turkish population in Norway never gets caught on the state’s security radars as an element threatening public order and safety. On the contrary, we are coded as a calm community that complies with the Norwegian constitutional order (Grunnloven) and its laws, works, and pays its taxes.

📊 My Own Scandinavian Ethnic Crime Density Comparison Matrix

North & East Africa (Morocco, Somalia, etc.): Very high density in crime areas (Street gangs, extortion, drugs). Critical level of institutional threat perception that strains the system. Multiples higher compared to Turks.

Middle East (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, etc.): High density (Organized networks, clan-based crimes). High-risk public order issue. Crime rates are very high compared to Turks.

Turkey (Turks): Low / Lower-Middle density (Generally isolated cases). Considered safe and compliant. Very clean and minimal compared to the actual crisis groups.

⚙️ Sociological Diagnosis: Why Are We Comparatively So Much Cleaner? As a systems analyst, I have to decode the architecture behind this data. There are two fundamental systemic factors behind why our crime rates remain so low:

The Character of Migration (Labor Migration vs. Uncontrolled Asylum): The foundation of our presence in Scandinavia is based on the “labor-focused” mass that went through official labor agreements in the 1960s and 1970s. We went there to integrate, work, and produce. On the other hand, the groups exploding the crime statistics today are masses that mostly arrived with the uncontrolled, traumatic, illegal migration waves after the 1990s and 2000s, prone to exploiting the system’s welfare funds.

Parallel Society and Rejection of Integration: The Middle Eastern and African communities with high crime rates have established “no-go” ghettos and parallel structures where sharia or tribal rules apply, completely rejecting Scandinavia’s language, culture, and legal order. Since our culture is fed by an essence that takes order, state authority, and rules seriously, we see the principle of “obligatorisk integration” (mandatory integration) — which I also advocate for in the AAP Sverige charter — not as assimilation or degradation, but as a social consensus and the absolute minimum requirement of civilization and law.

CONCLUSION: My Final Answer to Right-Wing Politicians and Anti-Immigrants

A rational nationalist who wants to protect their own public order and demography in Europe or any other geography must define the target correctly. Attributing the crime wave stemming from the tribal culture, statelessness, and propensity for violence of Middle Eastern and African immigrants to Turks is to deny the very data of Brå, Danmarks Statistik, and SSB itself.

We are not Middle Eastern. We are not a nation that lives with a clan, tribe, or ghetto mentality. A Turk does not tear down the state they live in to set up a parallel tribal court; they start their own business, pay their taxes, and put their shoulder to the economic wheel of the system. If the European right wants to clean its streets of gangs, instead of alienating us who respect their laws, they should look at the actual crisis hotspots in their own statistics that I have pointed out.

The numbers are there, the sociology is clear: We Turks are not Middle Eastern. We are a completely different civilization carrying the order- and state-building culture of Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Aegean, the Mediterranean, and Central Asia in our genes.

Doğukan Yegin Independent Researcher, OSINT Analyst, and Developer NorthByte Norway Tec LTD & Nordic FactShield AAP  SWEEDEN