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Does Etel Adnan have Turkish heritage?
Her mother was a Greek Orthodox living in Smyrna (İzmir, Turkey) and her father was an Ottoman soldier born in Damascus (Syria). Her parental grandfather was a Turkish soldier, a classmate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. She has Greek, Ottoman roots.