I know some words in Arabic. Both my mother and father are arabic also. They didn't teach me arabic because turkish people had very prejudiced views against arabs till some years ago. My father(who passed away from cancer at the age of 73 btw.) used to say that our family are the descendants of Hazrat Omar, the second khalifate of Islam and he(Hz. Omar) were blond and had blue eyes(I have the same looks). He also used to say that he had friends from Jordan who were also claimed to be descendants of Hz. Omar and there is a small city in Jordan where most people are descendants of Hz. Omar and they had similar racial attributes. I don't really know but my family history has always been interesting to me because we are from the city of Mardin where nearly only the arabs and kurds live, near the Syria border. We have relatives in Syria and nearly all our family look like northern europeans than arabs...