“…Until today, many studies have been conducted on genetic diversity of lentil varieties, species and landraces utilizing several approaches, including physiological and morphological markers (Erskine and Choudhary, 1986;Erskine et al, 1989), isozymes (Erskine and Muehlbauer, 1991), storage proteins of seed (Sultana et al, 2006) and DNA based molecular markers such as restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) (Havey and Muehlbauer, 1989), random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) (Abo-Elwafa et al, 1995;Ahmad et al, 1996;Ford et al, 1997;Ferguson et al, 1998;Sonnante and Pignone, 2001;Yuzbasioglu et al, 2006), amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) (Sharma et al, 1996;Toklu et al, 2009;Alghamdi et al, 2014), intersimple sequence repeat (ISSR) (Fikiru et al, 2007;Scippa et al, 2008;Toklu et al, 2009;El-Nahas et al, 2011;Seyedimoradi and Talebi, 2014), simple sequence repeat (SSR) (Jin et al, 2008;Babayeva et al, 2009;Kaur et al, 2011;Zaccardelli et al, 2012;Kushwaha et al, 2013;Dikshit et al, 2015;Idrissi et al, 2015;Idrissi et al, 2018;Tsanakas et al, 2018) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (Lombardi et al, 2014;Basheer-Salimia et al, 2015;Khazaei et al, 2016). On the other hand, Turkish lentil landraces which take a significant role in breeding offer rich genetic sources and farmers in Turkey still cultivated on a small scale landrace preferred for their ability of adaptation to regional environmental conditions (Toklu et al, 2009).…”