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Okay, so here is my pic. Hopefully you and sum won't be too judgy.  Later!  |
You've nothing to worry about. They're good pics.
On Hugh's ancestry, he's Greek ethnically, not Turkish. His ancestor's last name is Bellas, which is Greek, not Turkish. He must be calling the ancestry Turkish because the ancestor was born in Istanbul, which is now in Turkey. Istanbul was originally Constantinople, the capital of the Greek Byzantine Empire, but it was conquered by the Turks in the 15th century. There were a lot of ethnic Greeks living in Turkey at the time of the Ottoman Empire (which was when Hugh's Greek ancestor was born) and they mostly moved to Greece in the 20th century. Hugh's a bit confused or maybe he's just trying to bond with the Turks, but his views on his ancestry would be controversial in that region.