Is $SU(n)$ a complex Lie group?

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I had been naively thinking that $GL_n(\mathbb C)$,$SL_n(\mathbb C)$,$U_n(\mathbb C)$ and $SU_n(\mathbb C)$ being the complex analogs of $GL_n(\mathbb R)$ etc should be complex Lie groups.

But wiki says that while $GL_n(\mathbb C)$ is indeed a complex Lie group, $SU_n(\mathbb C)$ is not.

  1. What makes the general linear group a complex Lie group but the special unitary group not one?
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