Freud depicted Turks as sexually vital yet resigned toward death.

Evidence

In this anecdote, the main characters are not “turning Turk” so much as they could be said to be “turning ghost.” “These Turks place a higher value on sexual enjoyment than on anything else, and in the event of sexual disorders they are plunged in a despair which contrasts strangely with their resignation towards the threat of death” (3/G14-15). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 659