@ebiannah It must have been very interesting to live there! I'd love to visit Turkey someday. And I promise that, when I do, I will not call anybody an Arab!
I used to live in Turkey, from 1974-1976. One of the worst things you could call a Turk was an Arab. If you did so, knowing better, you had to be ready to run.
Me, not being an idiot, never did that.