Turks in Europe

Ethnic group in Europe

Turkish workers' block of flats in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1972

The Turks in Europe (sometimes called Euro-Turks; Turkish: Avrupa'daki Türkler or Avrupa'da yaşayan Türkler or Avrupa Türkleri) refers to Turkish people living in Europe.

Generally, "Euro-Turks" refers to the large Turkish diasporas living in Central and Western Europe as well as the Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire and those living in Russia and other European Post-Soviet states. When the term "Euro-Turks" is taken in its most literal sense, Turkish people living in the European portion of Turkey are also included in the term. Even more broadly, the Turkish Cypriot community for people living in Cyprus, which is located in Asia, has also been defined under the term "Euro-Turks" since the island joined the European Union.

It is less frequently applied to Turkic groups speaking a variety of Turkic languages that have lived in Europe before the Ottoman conquest, such as the Gagauz, Crimean Karaites and Urum Greeks, the Krymchaks, and the Dobrujan Tatars.

Turks have had a long history in Europe, dating back to when the Ottoman Empire began to conquer and migrate during the establishment of Ottoman territories in Europe ("Rumelia"), which created significant Turkish communities in Bulgaria (Bulgarian Turks), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian Turks), Cyprus (Meskhetian Turks), Greece (Cretan Turks, Dodecanese Turks, and Western Thrace Turks), Kosovo (Kosovan Turks), Serbia (Turks in Serbia), North Macedonia (Turks in North Macedonia), and Romania (Romanian Turks).

In the first half of the 20th century, immigration of Turks to Western Europe began with Turkish Cypriots migrating to the United Kingdom in the early 1910s, when the British Empire annexed Cyprus in 1914 and the residents of Cyprus became British subjects. However, Turkish Cypriot migration increased significantly in the 1940s and 1950s due to the Cyprus conflict. Similarly, Turkish Algerians and Turkish Tunisians mainly emigrated to France after Algeria and Tunisia came under French colonial rule. Conversely, in 1944, Turks who were forcefully deported from Meskheti in Georgia during the World War II settled in other parts of the Soviet Union, especially in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.

In the second half of the 20th century, Turkish migration from Turkey to Western and Northern Europe increased significantly when in 1961 Turkish "Gastarbeiter" began to arrive under a "Labour Export Agreement" with West Germany, followed in 1964 by similar agreements with the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria; France in 1965; and Sweden in 1967.[1][2][3] Furthermore, many Balkan Turks also arrived in these countries under similar labour agreements, thus, since the 1960s there has also been a substantial Turkish Macedonian community in Sweden; Turkish Bulgarian and Turkish Western Thracian communities in Germany, etc.

More recently, in the 21st century, Turkish Bulgarians, Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Western Thracians, and Turkish Romanians have used their right as EU nationals to migrate throughout Western Europe. Furthermore, Iraqi and Syrian Turkmen have come to Europe mostly as refugees since the Iraq and Syrian civil war – especially since the 2015 European migrant crisis.

## History

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As early as the 13th century Turkic slaves (Oghuz and Kipchak Mameluks), from Central Asia and the Pontic Steppe, had been sold to Northern Italian city states by Arab traders.[4] Some of the slaves were bought free and mixed in with the local Italian population.

### Ottoman migration

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Ottoman Turks migrated to various parts of Europe during the rule of the Ottoman Empire; thus, large communities have been formed due to Turkish colonisation, especially in Bulgaria, the island of Cyprus, Georgia (especially in Meskheti), Greece (mainly in Western Thrace), Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Romania.

See also: Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire, Administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, and Rumelia

During the rule of the Ottoman Empire (1299–1923), Turkish settlers began to move into territories in Europe as part of the Turkish expansion. Because these communities migrated to these countries during the Ottoman rule, they are not considered part of the modern Turkish diaspora. However, these populations, which have different nationalities, still share the same ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious origins as today's Turkish nationals.

#### Balkan Turks

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A Turkish woman from Thessaloniki, 1917

The conquest of the Balkans by the Ottomans set in motion important population movements of Turks brought over from Anatolia to Rumelia, establishing a firm Turkish base for further conquests in Europe.[5] Thus, the Ottomans used colonization as a very effective method to consolidate their position and power in the Balkans.[citation needed] The colonizers that were brought to the Balkans consisted of soldiers, nomads, farmers, artisans and merchants, dervishes, preachers and other religious functionaries, and administrative personnel. Densely populated Turkish colonies were established in the frontier regions of Thrace in the valleys of the Maritsa and Tundzha.[5] In addition to voluntary migrations, throughout the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, the Ottoman authorities also used mass deportations (Ottoman Turkish: سوركون‎, romanized: sürgün, lit. 'banishment, exile') as a method of control over potentially rebellious individuals.[6]

One of the greatest impacts of the Ottoman colonization process of the Balkans was felt in the urban centres, many towns became major centres for Turkish control and administration, with most Christians gradually withdrawing to the mountains. The Ottomans embarked on creating new towns and repopulating older towns that had suffered significant population decline and economic dislocation during the wars preceding the Ottoman conquests.[6] Major Balkan towns, especially those on or near transportation and communication routes, were the focal point of Ottoman colonization in the Balkans. Most urban centres in the Balkans, especially in Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly, and Moesia, achieved Muslim/Turkish majorities or substantial minorities soon after the completion of the conquest and remained overwhelmingly Muslim in composition into the eighteenth century, and in some areas such as Macedonia and Bulgaria well into the nineteenth century.[7]

However, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many Turks were displaced and ethnically cleansed, most of them fleeing to Anatolia and East Thrace. At present, there are still significant Turkish minorities living in Bulgaria, the province of East Macedonia and Thrace in Northern Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Romania.[8]

#### Meskhetian Turks

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Main article: Meskhetian Turks

The Meskhetian Turks, also known as Ahiska Turks, reside or used to reside in Meskheti, which is in the southwestern region of Georgia. The region came under Ottoman rule in the sixteenth century up until 1829. Today, approximately 600 to 1000 Meskhetian Turks are still living in Georgia.[9] The population drastically decreased in 1944, when Joseph Stalin deported approximately 100,000 of these Turks to Eastern Europe and Central Asia.[10]

#### Turkish Cypriots

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A Turkish Cypriot woman in 1878. Bulgarian Turks from Tirnova as refugees in 1877. Macedonian Turks in 1914.

Main articles: Turkish Cypriots and Ottoman Cyprus

The Ottoman Turks conquered Cyprus in 1571 when they began a campaign which led to the fall of Nicosia in September 1570 and of Famagusta in August 1571.[11] By 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers, which included soldiers who were involved in the conquest and their families, or agricultural colonizers, particularly from Konya, were given land on the island.[12][11] Additionally, many of the islanders converted to Islam during the early years of Ottoman rule due to significant advantages to being Muslim (i.e. taxation).[13] Thus, a strong Turkish element was formed in Cyprus' population, which was later reinforced by immigration from Asia Minor.[11]

#### Turkish Roma

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Main article: Turkish Roma

With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish-speaking Muslim Roma settled in Rumelia (southeastern Europe) under Ottoman rule. The Ottoman Archives of the 18th century and 19th century told from so-called Türkmen Kıpti (تركمن قِبْطِيّ‎‎, who spoke Turkish only with few Romani words, as a separate group from other Roma in Rumelia.[14] Turkish Roma have adopted the Turkish language to establish a Turkish identity and to be more recognized by their host population.[15] The majority Turkish-speaking Muslim Roma in Bulgaria, Dobruja-Romania, Western Thrace-Greece, Northern Cyprus and Turkey declare themselves to be Turks, not Romani people.[16] Gene flow from the Ottoman Turks spilled over in the Balkan Roma and established a higher frequency of the human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups J and E-M215[17] Horahane means Turks (term for Muslims) in Romani language.[18]

Some Turkish citizens who came as Gastarbeiter from Turkey to Europe have Roma backgrounds and are fully assimilated into Turkish European communities. The second wave of Turkish Roma to Western Europe began when Bulgaria and Romania became a member of the EU; many Turkish Roma from Bulgaria and Romania (Dobruja) went to Western Europe.[19]

#### Early Western European Turks as traders in Western Europe

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At least from the 16th century onwards Ottoman traders settled in western European trading capitals such as Antwerp, Amsterdam[20] and London.[21] Turkish traders in the Netherlands had at least two mosques in Amsterdam in the early 17th century.[22]

### Modern migration

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See also: Guest workers and Gastarbeiter

According to an estimate in the European Union there are 3,7 million ethnic Turks.[23]

#### Turkish Cypriot migration to Great Britain (1920s-present)

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See also: Turkish Cypriots and Turks in the United Kingdom

Turkish Cypriots started to immigrate from Cyprus to the United Kingdom in the early 1910s when the British Empire annexed Cyprus in 1914 and the residents of Cyprus became subjects of the Crown.[24] Many Turkish Cypriots went to the United Kingdom as students and tourists whilst others left the island due to the harsh economic and political life during the British Colony of Cyprus.[25] Emigration to the United Kingdom continued to increase when the Great Depression of 1929 brought economic depression to Cyprus, with unemployment and low wages being a significant issue.[26][27] During the Second World War, the number of Turkish run businesses increased which created a demand for more Turkish Cypriot workers.[28] Thus, throughout the 1950s, Turkish Cypriots emigrated to the United Kingdom for economic reasons and by 1958 the number of Turkish Cypriots was estimated to be 8,500.[29] Their numbers increased each year as rumours about immigration restrictions appeared in much of the Cypriot media.[27]

There are about 300,000 to 350,000 Turkish Cypriots, out of a total of 500,000 British Turks, living in the United Kingdom.[30][31]

Furthermore, the 1950s saw the arrival of many more Turkish Cypriots to the United Kingdom who felt vulnerable as they had cause for concern about the political future of the island.[28] This was first evident when the Greek Cypriots held a referendum in 1950 in which 95.7% of eligible Greek Cypriot voters cast their ballots in supporting a fight aimed at uniting Cyprus with Greece.[32] Hence, Turkish Cypriots fled to the United Kingdom due to the EOKA terrorists and its aim of Enosis.[25] By the 1960s, inter-ethnic fighting broke out and by 1964 some 25,000 Turkish Cypriots became internally displaced, accounting to about a fifth of their population;[33][34] furthermore, approximately 60,000 Turkish Cypriots were forcefully moved into Turkish Cypriot enclaves within Cyprus.[35] This period in Cypriot history resulted in an exodus of more Turkish Cypriots to the United Kingdom.[25] Other reasons for the continued migration to the United Kingdom was because of the economic gap which was widening in Cyprus. The Greek Cypriots were increasingly taking control of the country's major institutions causing the Turkish Cypriots to become economically disadvantaged.[28] Thus, the political and economic unrest in Cyprus after 1964 sharply increased the number of Turkish Cypriot immigrants to the United Kingdom.[27] Many of these early migrants worked in the clothing industry in London, where both men and women could work together- sewing was a skill which the community had already acquired in Cyprus.[36] Turkish Cypriots were concentrated mainly in the north-east of London and specialised in the heavy-wear sector, such as coats and tailored garments.[37][38] This sector offered work opportunities where poor knowledge of the English language was not a problem and where self-employment was a possibility.[39]

Once the Greek military junta rose to power in 1967, Greece staged a coup d'état in 1974 against the Cypriot President, with the help of EOKA B, to unite the island with Greece.[40] This led to a military offensive by Turkey who invaded the island.[34] By 1983, the Turkish Cypriots declared their own state, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which has since remained internationally unrecognised except by Turkey. The division of the island led to an economic embargo against the Turkish Cypriots by the Greek Cypriot controlled Government of Cyprus. This had the effect of depriving the Turkish Cypriots of foreign investment, aid and export markets; thus, it caused the Turkish Cypriot economy to remain stagnant and undeveloped.[41] Due to these economic and political issues, an estimated 130,000 Turkish Cypriots have emigrated from Northern Cyprus since its establishment to the United Kingdom.[42][43] In 2011, the House of Commons, Home Affairs Committee suggested that there are now about 300,000 Turkish Cypriots living in the UK.[30]

#### Turkish Meskhetian migration within Eastern Europe (1944–present)

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See also: Meskhetian Turks and Turks in the former Soviet Union

The Meskhetian Turks, originally living in Meskheti (now known as Samtskhe-Javakheti) which is a part of southern Georgia, are widely dispersed throughout the former Soviet Union (150,000 live in Kazakhstan, 90,000–110,000 in Azerbaijan, 70,000–90,000 in Russia, 50,000 in Kyrgyzstan, 15,000 in Uzbekistan and 10,000 in Ukraine[44]) as a result of forced deportations and discrimination which began in 1944. During World War II, the Soviet Union was preparing to launch a pressure campaign against Turkey and Vyacheslav Molotov, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, formally presented a demand to the Turkish Ambassador in Moscow for the surrender of three Anatolian provinces (Kars, Ardahan and Artvin); thus, war against Turkey seemed possible, and Joseph Stalin wanted to clear the strategic Turkish population (especially those situated in Meskheti) located near the Turkish-Georgian border which were likely to be hostile to Soviet intentions.[45]

In 1944, the Meskhetian Turks were forcefully deported from Meskheti in Georgia and accused of smuggling, banditry and espionage in collaboration with their kin across the Turkish border.[46] Nationalistic policies at the time encouraged the slogan: "Georgia for Georgians" and that the Meskhetian Turks should be sent to Turkey "where they belong".[47][48] Joseph Stalin deported the Meskhetian Turks to Central Asia (especially to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan), thousands dying en route in cattle-trucks,[49] and were not permitted by the Georgian government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia to return to their homeland.[47]

In the late 1970s, the Stavropol and Krasnodar authorities in Russia visited various regions of Uzbekistan to invite and recruit Meskhetian Turks to work in agriculture enterprises in southern Russia.[50] By 1985, Moscow issued a proposal inviting more Meskhetian Turks to move to villages in southern Russia that had been abandoned by ethnic Russians who were moving to the cities. However, the Meskhetian Turks response was that they would only leave Uzbekistan if the move were to be to their homeland.[51] Then, in 1989, ethnic Uzbeks began a series of actions against the Turks, they became the victims of riots in the Ferghana valley which led to over a hundred deaths. Within days, Decision 503 was announced "inviting" the Turks to occupy the empty farms in southern Russia that they had resisted moving to for years and around 17,000 Meskhetian Turks were evacuated to Russia.[52][53] Meskhetian Turks maintain that Moscow had planned the Uzbek riots.[53] By the early 1990s, of the 70,000 Meskhetian Turks who were still resident in Uzbekistan, approximately 50,000 Turkish Meskhetian refugees went to Azerbaijan due to continued discrimination[54][55][56][57] whilst others went to Russia and Ukraine due to fears of continued violence.[52]

#### Mainland Turkish migration to Western and Northern Europe (1960s-present)

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##### The "gastarbeiters" (guest workers)

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See also: Gastarbeiter and Guest workers

The concept of the Gastarbeiter involved the agreements between the host country and Turkey which was bound up with policies of the governments involved, with state bureaucracies on both sides ultimately responsible for the dispatch and settlement of the workers.[58] Subsequently, labor agreements were signed with several European countries- with Germany in 1961; with Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands in 1964; with France in 1965; and with Sweden in 1967. The agreements were based on a principle of rotation, and a worker was expected to return home after a year of employment abroad.[58] However, employers wanted to retain workers who had become accustomed to the work; therefore, the rotation principle never became practice. Workers were not permitted to take their families abroad with them, and were housed in group living quarters or dormitories known as "Heim".[58]

Labour recruitment and social security agreements between Turkey and European states[1]

Country | Labour recruitment agreement,
date and place | Social security agreement,
date and place
Austria | 15 May 1964, Vienna | 12 October 1966, Vienna
Belgium | 16 July 1964, Brussels | 4 July 1966, Brussels
Denmark |  | 13 November 1970, Ankara
France | 8 May 1965, Ankara | 20 January 1972, Paris
Germany | 30 October 1961, Bonn
(was revised by 20 May protocol, Bonn) | 30 April 1964, Bonn
Netherlands | 19 August 1964, The Hague | 5 April 1966, Ankara
Sweden | 10 March 1967, Stockholm | 30 June 1978, Stockholm
Switzerland |  | 1 May 1969, Ankara
United Kingdom |  | 9 September 1959, Ankara

##### Family reunifications

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By the early 1970s, the majority of Turkish emigration to Western Europe was for the purpose of family reunification. Furthermore, by the 1990s, migration mainly by way of marriage continued to be one of the principal reasons for settling in Western Europe.

#### Migration of Western Thrace Turks to Western Europe (1960s-present)

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See also: Guest workers and Western Thrace Turks

About 25,000 to 40,000 Turks of Western Thrace, who are the ethnic Turks who live in the north-eastern part of Greece, have emigrated to Western Europe.[59][60] Between 12,000 and 25,000 moved to Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Thracian tobacco industry was affected by a severe crisis and many tobacco growers lost their income.[61][62] After Germany, the Netherlands is the most popular destination for Western Thrace Turks, especially in the region of Randstad.[63] There is also an estimated 600–700 Western Thrace Turks living in London, although the total number living outside London is unknown.[63]

#### Migration of Bulgarian Turks to Western Europe (2000s-present)

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See also: Bulgarian Turks

According to the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Turks make up 12% of short term migrants, 13% of long term migrants, and 12% of the labour migrants.[64] However, it is unlikely that this generalisation shows a true indication of the ethnic make-up of Bulgarian citizens living abroad because Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin make up entire majorities in some countries.[65] For example, out of the 10,000 to 30,000 people from Bulgaria living in the Netherlands, the majority, of about 80%, are ethnic Turks from Bulgaria who have come from the south-eastern Bulgarian district of Kurdzhali.[66] Moreover, the Bulgarian Turks are the fastest-growing group of immigrants in the Netherlands.[67] There is also about 30,000 Bulgarian Turks living in Sweden,[68] a growing community in the United Kingdom[30] and Germany,[69] and 1,000 in Austria.[70]

## Population

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See also: Turkish population

Distribution of Turks in Europe.

In the post-Ottoman countries, Turkish Cypriots (alongside recent Anatolian settlers) form a majority in Northern Cyprus; furthermore, in the Balkans, the Turks are the second largest ethnic group in Bulgaria, and the third largest ethnic group in North Macedonia. In the diaspora (i.e. outside the former territories of the Ottoman Empire), the Turkish people form the second largest ethnic group in Austria, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.[71]

As early as 1997 Professor Servet Bayram and Professor Barbara Seels said that there was 10 million Turks living in Western Europe and the Balkans (excluding Cyprus and Turkey).[72] By 2010, Boris Kharkovsky from the Center for Ethnic and Political Science Studies said that there was up to 15 million Turks living in the European Union.[73] According to Dr Araks Pashayan 10 million "Euro-Turks" alone were living in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium in 2012.[74] Yet, there are also significant Turkish communities living in Austria, the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein and the Scandinavian countries. As for Eastern Europe, Professor Oya Dursun-Özkanca said in 2019 that there was over 1 million Turks living in the Balkan countries (i.e. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia);[75] meanwhile, approximately 400,000 Meskhetian Turks live in the European regions of the Post-Soviet states (i.e. Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine).[76] Also, the number of Turkish Cypriots and Turkish settlers living in North Cyprus is around 300,000 to 500,000.

In addition, in the Republic of Turkey over 10.6 million people were living in the European areas of the country (according to the 2012 census); furthermore, one-fifth of Turkey's entire population,[75] or around 15–20 million Turks,[77] descend from the muhacirs ("refugees") who were forced to leave the Balkans before and after the First World War. Also, the number of Turkish Cypriots in the country may exceed 600,000.[78]

### Turkish communities in former Ottoman territories

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The Turkish provinces of Edirne, Tekirdağ and Kırklareli, as well as territories on the European continent of the provinces of Çanakkale and Istanbul fall under "European Turkey". Ottoman Muslim muhacirs ("refugees") arriving in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1912. Today, approximately one-fifth of Turkey's population, or around 15–20 million Turks,[77] descend from remainders of families who survived the ethnic cleansings in Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries.[75]

#### Turkey

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The Republic of Turkey is a transcontinental country with territory in both Europe and Asia. In its literal sense, the European region of the country is located in Eastern Thrace and includes all the territories of the Turkish provinces of Edirne, Tekirdağ and Kırklareli, as well as those territories on the European continent of the provinces of Çanakkale and Istanbul. The land borders of East Thrace were defined by the Treaty of Constantinople (1913) and the Bulgarian-Ottoman convention (1915), and were reaffirmed by the Treaty of Lausanne. According to the 2012 census, there was 10,620,739 people living in Eastern Thrace.

In addition, due to the formation of modern nation states the 19th and 20th centuries, millions of Turkish communities from the former Ottoman provinces fled persecution and arrived in Turkey as muhacirs ("refugees"). Today, approximately one-fifth of the Turkish population, or around 15–20 million Turks,[77] is estimated to have Balkan origins.[75] Most arrived from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia. In addition, there was significant migration waves from the island of Cyprus; today the Turkish Cypriot population in Turkey may exceed 600,000.[78]

#### Balkans

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Main article: Balkan Turks

##### Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Main article: Turks in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The last Bosnian census taken in 2013 recorded 1,108 Turks.[79] The Turkish language is officially recognized as a minority language, in accordance with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, under Article 2, paragraph 2, of the 2010 ratification.[80] Other estimates suggests that there are more than 50,000 Turks.

##### Bulgaria

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Main article: Turks in Bulgaria

The Turks form a majority in the Kardzhali Province.

The Turks form a majority in the Razgrad Province.

The last Bulgarian census taken in 2011 recorded 588,318 Turks (i.e. 8.8% of Bulgaria's total population), and showed that they formed a majority in the Kardzhali Province and the Razgrad Province.[81] However, in 2010, an article published by Novinite reported findings from the Center for Demographic Policy and claimed that the Turks numbered 1 million.[82]

The Bulgarian constitution of 1991 does not mention any ethnic minorities and the Bulgarian language is the sole official language of the State. However, in accordance with Article 36(2), the Turkish minority has the right to study their own language alongside the compulsory study of the Bulgarian language. Moreover, under Article 54(1), the Turkish minority have the right to "develop their culture in accordance with his ethnic identification".[83]

##### Croatia

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Main article: Turks in Croatia

The last Croatian census taken in 2011 recorded 367 Turks.[84] Although a small community, the Turks are officially recognized as a minority ethnic group, in accordance with the 2010 Constitution of Croatia.[85]

##### Greece

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Main article: Turks in Greece

Flag of the short-lived Independent Government of Western Thrace (now in modern-day Greece). A Turkish consciousness in today's Western Thrace extends back to the founding of the first of four western Thracian republics in the summer of 1913.[86]

The last Greek census which allowed citizens to declare their ethnicity was taken in 1951; it recorded 85,945 Turks, which formed 1.2% of Greece's total population.[87] In 1990 Lois Whitman from Human Rights Watch said that the Turks living the Western Thrace region numbered between 120,000 and 130,000 (i.e. between 33 and 36 percent of the population).[88] More recently, in 2011 Dr Hermann Kandler said that the Turkish minority numbered 150,000 (about 50 percent of the population of Greek Thrace).[86] Due to economic reasons, some Western Thrace Turks have migrated to Athens and Thessaloniki. In addition, there is around 5,000 Turks in the Dodecanese islands of Rhodes and Kos.[89]

The Turks of Western Thrace have protected status to practice their religion and use the Turkish language, in accordance with the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.[90] Since the mid-1950s the Greek government referred to the ethnic rather than the religious character of the minority, until the governor general of Thrace instructed the local authorities to substitute the word "Turkish" for Muslim".[89] However, Dr Hermann Kandler points out that the minority is "essentially based on a Turkish rather than a Muslim historical consciousness" and that this "extends back to the founding of the first of four western Thracian republics in the summer of 1913" which existed for only 55 days.[86] The other sizable Turkish minorities living throughout Greece have no official recognition.

##### Kosovo

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Main article: Turks in Kosovo

The last Kosovan census taken in 2011 recorded 18,738 Turks, which formed 1.1% of Kosovo's total population.[91] However, the OSCE in 2010 suggest that there was 30,000 Kosovo Turks.[92] The European Centre for Minority Issues Kosovo also said that the 2011 census figures is lower than other estimates.[93]

The Turkish language is recognized as an official language in the municipalities of Prizren and Mamusha and has minority status in Gjilan, Pristina, Vushtrri, and Mitrovica.[94]

##### Montenegro

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Main article: Turks in Montenegro

The last Montenegrin census taken in 2011 recorded 104 Turks.[95]

##### North Macedonia

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Main article: Turks in North Macedonia

A statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Centar Župa where the Turks form a majority.

The Turks form a majority in the Plasnica Municipality.

The last Macedonian census taken in 2002 recorded 77,959 Turks, which formed 3.85% of North Macedonia's total population.[96] Yet, in 1996 Fred Abrahams from Human Rights Watch said that, like other ethnic minority groups in the country, leaders of the Turkish community claim higher numbers than the censuses show; for example, Erdogan Saraç of the Democratic Party of Turks had estimated that between 170,000 and 200,000 ethnic Turks were living in the country.[97]

Initially the 1988 draft constitution spoke of the "state of the Macedonian people and the Albanian and Turkish minority". Once the 1991 constitution came into force the Turkish language was used officially where Turks formed a majority in the Centar Župa Municipality and the Plasnica Municipality. Since the 2001 amendment to the constitution, the Turkish language is officially used where Turks form at least 20% of the population and hence it is also an official language of Mavrovo and Rostuša.[98]

##### Romania

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Main articles: Turks in Romania and Ada Kaleh

A statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Bucharest.

The island of Ada Kaleh had a Turkish majority population. It was submerged into the Danube during the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric plant in 1970.

The last Romanian census taken in 2011 recorded 28,226 recorded Turks, which formed 0.15% of Romania's total population.[99] However, in 2006, the President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, and Professor David Phinnemore had estimated that the Turkish minority numbered 55,000.[100] Furthermore, in 2008 Professor Daniela-Luminita Constantin, Professor Zizi Goschin and Professor Mariana Dragusin said that the total Turkish population was 80,000 - including the Turkish minority and recent Turkish immigrants.[101]

The Turkish language is officially recognized as a minority language, in accordance with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, under Part III of the 2007 ratification.[80]

Today, the only region left with a Turkish majority population is Dobromir, a commune in the Constanța County. Historically, the Turks also formed a majority on the island of Ada Kaleh, which was submerged during the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric plant in 1970.

##### Serbia

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Main article: Turks in Serbia

The last Serbian census undertaken in 2011 recorded 647 Turks.[102]

#### Cyprus

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Main article: Turkish Cypriots

Prior to the Cyprus dispute Turkish Cypriots lived throughout the island of Cyprus. However, the 1974 Cypriot coup d'état initiated by the Greek military junta, which sought to annex the island to Greece, prompted the Turkish invasion of Cyprus followed by the declaration of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus. Since the establishment of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1983 the majority of Turkish Cypriots live mostly in the northern region of the island. Flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on the Kyrenia Mountains.

With the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960, the Cypriot constitution (Articles 2 and 3) recognized the Turkish Cypriots as one of the "Two Communities" of the republic (alongside the Greek Cypriots). Hence, legally, they were given equal power-sharing rights with the Greek Cypriots and were not defined as a "minority group"; furthermore, the Turkish language was also recognized as an official language of the republic, alongside the Greek language.[103][104] However, due to the Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, followed by the Greek-led 1974 Cypriot coup d'état (which sought to achieve Enosis and establish the "Hellenic Republic of Cyprus" by ethnically cleansing the Turkish Cypriots under the Akritas plan also known as "the blueprint to genocide"),[105] and then the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Turkish Cypriots declared their own state – the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) – in 1983.

Today Northern Cyprus is populated mostly by Turkish Cypriots and recent Anatolian Turkish settlers. According to the 2011 TRNC census, the population of Northern Cyprus was 286,257.[106] Other estimates suggests that there is between 300,000 and 500,000 Turkish Cypriots and Turkish settlers living in the north of the island.[107][108] In addition, there was 1,128 Turkish Cypriots living in the south of the island in the 2011 census.[109]

#### Hungary

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Main article: Turks in Hungary

The Turkish people first began to migrate to Hungary during the Ottoman rule of Hungary (1541–1699). A second wave of Ottoman-Turkish migration occurred in the late 19th century when relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire improved; most of these immigrants settled in Budapest.[110] In the 2001 Hungarian census, 1,565 people declared their ethnicity as "Ottoman Turkish"; in addition, 12 individuals declared to be "Turk" and 91 "Bulgarian-Turkish".[111]

### Modern Turkish diasporas outside former Ottoman territories

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#### Central and Western Europe

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The Turks form substantial communities in "Western Europe" which includes countries with their borders strictly in Western Europe (i.e. Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) as well as countries with territory in both Western and Central Europe (i.e. Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland).

##### Austria

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Main article: Turks in Austria

The Turkish community, including descendants, form the largest ethnic minority in Austria. In 2011 a report by the Initiative Minderheiten said that there was 360,000 people of Turkish origin living in Austria.[112] This figure has also been echoed by the former Austrian Foreign Minister and current Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz.[113] By 2010 Ariel Muzicant said that the Turks in Austria already numbered 400,000.[114] Another estimate by the former Austrian MEP, Andreas Mölzer, has claimed that there are 500,000 Turks in the country.[115] Most of the Austrian-Turkish community descend from Turkey, however, there are also Turkish communities which have migrated to Austria from Bulgaria[70] and Greece.[116]

Turkish day in Vienna, Austria (2009).

##### Belgium

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Main article: Turks in Belgium

In 2012 Professor Raymond Taras said that the Belgian-Turkish community was over 200,000.[117] More recently, in 2019 Dr Altay Manço and Dr Ertugrul Taş said that there was 250,000 Belgian residents of Turkish origin.[118]

##### France

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Main articles: Turks in France and List of French Turks

The Eiffel Tower wearing the colours of the Turkish flag during the "Saison de la Turquie en France". There is around one million people of Turkish origin living in France.[119][120][121][122][123]

The Turks living in France are one of the largest Turkish communities in Western Europe. Official data on the total number of French Turks is not available because the French census only records statistics on the country of birth rather than one's ethnic affiliation.

Although the majority of French Turks descend from the Republic of Turkey, there has also been significant Turkish migration from other post-Ottoman countries including ethnic Turkish communities which have come to France from North Africa (especially Algeria and Tunisia), the Balkans (e.g. from Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Romania), the island of Cyprus, and more recently from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria.

In 2014 Professor Pierre Vermeren reported in L'Express that the Turkish population was around 800,000.[124] However, an earlier academic publication in 2010 by Dr Jean-Gustave Hentz and Dr Michel Hasselmann said that there was already 1 million Turks living in France.[119] Professor İzzet Er,[121] as well as the French-Armenian politician Garo Yalic (who is an advisor to Valerie Boyer),[122] also said that there was 1,000,000 Turks in France in 2011 and 2012 respectively. More recently, the Franco-Turkish population has been estimated to be more than one million according to French-published articles in Le Petit Journal (2019)[123] and Marianne (2020).[120]

##### Germany

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Main article: Turks in Germany

A popularized German-Turkish community flag.

The Turkish-Germans are the largest ethnic minority group in Germany and also the largest Turkish community in the Turkish diaspora.

The German census only collects data on country of birth, rather than ethnicity, consequently, official figures do not provide a true representation of the total population (i.e. including German-born descendants of full or partial Turkish origin regardless of country of birth). The majority of ethnic Turks living in Germany have either arrived from or originate from Turkey; however, there are also significant ethnic Turkish communities which have come from (or descend from) post-Ottoman nation-states in the Balkans (especially from Bulgaria and Greece), as well as from the island of Cyprus, and Lebanon. More recently, since the European migrant crisis (2014–19), there has also been a significant increase in the number of ethnic Turks from Syria, Iraq and Kosovo who have come to Germany.

In 1997 the Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, said that there was 3 million Turks in Germany.[125] However, since the early 2000s, numerous academics have said that there is "at least" or "more than" 4 million people of Turkish origin living in Germany (forming approximately 5% of the country's population).[126][127][128][129][130][131][132][133][134] Numerous sources have suggested significantly higher estimates. As early as 2005 Austrian scholar Dr. Tessa Szyszkowitz quoted a senior European official who said:

> It is a little late to start the debate about being an immigrant country now, when already seven million Turks live in Germany".[135]

By 2013 Dr James Lacey and Professor Williamson Murray noted that the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said that Germany's Leitkultur "needs to be accepted by Germany's seven million Turkish immigrants".[136]

As of 2020, numerous sources have said that there are 7 million, or more than 7 million, Turks in Germany, including Professor George K. Zestos and Rachel Cooke in their report published by the Levy Economics Institute,[137] Professor Graham E. Fuller's article in the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft,[138] Professor James G. Lacey's article in the National Security Innovation Network.[139] and Louise Callaghan's article in The Times.[140]

##### Ireland

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Main article: Turks in Ireland

##### Liechtenstein

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Main article: Turks in Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein does not record data on the ethnicity of its citizens; however, in 2009, the Turkish community was estimated to number approximately 1,000 out of a total population of 35,000.[141] Hence, estimates suggest that the Turks form around 3% of Liechtenstein's total population and that they are the fifth largest ethnic group in the country.[142]

##### Netherlands

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Turkish and Dutch flag hanging together in Kruidenbuurt, Eindhoven.

Iraqi Turks protesting in Amsterdam.

Main article: Turks in the Netherlands

The Turkish-Dutch community form the largest ethnic minority group in the Netherlands. The majority of Dutch Turks descend from the Republic of Turkey; however there has also been significant Turkish migration waves from other post-Ottoman countries including ethnic Turkish communities which have come to the Netherlands from the Balkans (e.g. especially from Bulgaria, Greece, and North Macedonia),[143] the island of Cyprus,[143] and more recently during the European migrant crisis from Syria, Iraq and Kosovo. In addition, there has been migration to the Netherlands from the Turkish diaspora; many Turkish-Belgians and Turkish-Germans have arrived in the country as Belgian and German citizens.[143]

The Dutch official census only collects data on country of birth, rather than ethnically; consequently, the total number of ethnic Turkish migrants (regardless of country of birth) nor the third, fourth or fifth generation of the Turkish-Dutch community have been collectively counted.[143] Assistant Professor Suzanne Aalberse, Professor Ad Backus and Professor Pieter Muysken have said that "over the years" the Dutch-Turkish community "must have numbered half a million".[144] However, there are significantly higher estimates. As early as 2003, the political scientist and international relations expert Nathalie Tocci said that there was already "two million Turks in Holland".[145] Rita van Veen also reported in Trouw that there was 2 million Turks in the Netherlands in 2007.[146]

In 2009 The Sophia Echo reported that Bulgarian Turks were now the fastest-growing group of immigrants in the Netherlands.[67]

The CBS gives a total number of 444.300 Turks in 2022, up from 271.500 in 1996. About half were born in the Netherlands (second generation) and the other half outside the Netherlands (first generation) [147] The third generation, those who are born in the Netherlands including their parents but at least one grandparent not, was 36.200 in 2022. This only accounts for people being between the age of 0 and 55. In 2022 there were about 430.000 Turks in the Netherlands. The third generation is counted as autochthonous. Thus, the total number of people in the Netherlands with at least one grandparent born in Turkey in 2022 was at least 466.200.[148]

##### Poland

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Main article: Turks in Poland

In 2013 data from the Institute of Public Affairs showed that there were 5,000 Turks living in Poland.[149] In 2023 Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimated that around 25,000 Turkish citizens are living in Poland, including students under Erasmus+ program. [150]

##### Slovenia

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The last Slovenian census taken in 2002 recorded 359 Turks.[151]

##### Switzerland

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Main article: Turks in Switzerland

In 2017 there was over 120,000 Turks living in Switzerland. They mostly live in German-speaking regions, especially in the cantons of Zurich, Aargau and Basel. Figures on naturalization and migration from Turkey has been declining, however, the Swiss population with a Turkish migration background continues to grow.[152]

##### United Kingdom

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Turkish Cypriots protesting in London

A Turkish Festival near South Bank.

Main article: British Turks

In 2011 the Home Affairs Committee stated here was 500,000 British Turks made up of 300,000 Turkish Cypriots, 150,000 Turkish nationals (i.e. people from Turkey), and smaller groups of Bulgarian Turks and Romanian Turks.[153][154] In addition, there are growing Turkish communities in the UK which have arrived from Algeria,[155] Bulgaria, Greece (i.e. Western Thrace region),[116] Iraq[156] and Syria.

#### Northern Europe

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##### Denmark

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Main article: Turks in Denmark

The Turkish community form the largest ethnic minority in Denmark. In 2008 the Danish Broadcasting Corporation estimated that Danes of Turkish origin numbered 70,000.[157][158] Whilst the majority of Danish Turks originate from Turkey, there is also a Turkish community from Iraq living in the country.[159]

##### Finland

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Main article: Turks in Finland

In 2010 Professor Zeki Kütük said that there was approximately 10,000 people of Turkish origin living in Finland.[160]

##### Norway

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Main article: Turks in Norway

In 2013 there was roughly 16,500 Norwegians of Turkish descent living in Norway.[161]

##### Sweden

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Swedish Turks protesting in Stockholm with Turkish and Iraqi Turkish flags.

Main article: Turks in Sweden

In 2009 the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs said that there was almost 100,000 people with a Turkish background living in Sweden.[162] More recently, in 2018 the Swedish Consul General, Therese Hyden, said that the population was now around 150,000.[163]

Although the majority of Swedish Turks originate from the modern borders of Turkey, there has also been substantial Turkish migration waves from Bulgaria (which numbered approximately 30,000 in 2002);[164] furthermore, there is a substantial number of Macedonian Turks with approximately 4,5000 from Prespa region living in Malmö.[165] Turks have also arrived from Iraq[159] and Syria, especially since the European migrant crisis.

#### Southern Europe

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##### Italy

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Main article: Turks in Italy

In 2020 there was 50,000 Turkish citizens living in Italy;[166] however, this figure does not include naturalized Italian citizens of Turkish origin or their descendants. In addition to the diaspora, some of the population in Moena has identified as Turkish since the 17th century.[167]

##### Spain

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Main article: Turks in Spain

The Turkish community in Spain has been increasing significantly since the 2000s. In 2015 there was approximately 10,000 Turkish citizens living in the country, especially in Madrid and Barcelona;[168] however, this figure does not include naturalized Spain citizens of Turkish origin or their descendants.

#### Eastern Europe

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See also: Meskhetian Turks

The majority of Turks living in Eastern Europe are from the Turkish Meskhetian minority with were deported from Meskhetia in Georgia in 1944.

Country | Official censuses | Dr Aydıngün (2006 estimate)[169] | Al Jazeera (2014 estimate)[76] | Further information

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Azerbaijan | 38,000 (2009 Azeri census)[170] | 90,000–110,000 | 87,000 | Turks in Azerbaijan
Russia | 105,058 Turks and 4,825 Meskhetian Turks
Total: 109,883 (2010 Russian census)[171] | 70,000–90,000 | 95,000 | Turks in Russia
Kazakhstan | 97,015 (2009 Kazakh census)[172] | 150,000 | 180,000 | Turks in Kazakhstan
Ukraine | 8,844 (2001 Ukrainian census)[173] | 10,000 | 8,000 | Turks in Ukraine
Georgia | *Pre-World War II:
137,921 (1926 USSR census)[174]

1,375 (1989 USSR census)[175]

Not recorded in modern Georgian census | 600–1,000 | 1,500 | Turks in Georgia

## Religion

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See also: Islam in Europe

### Notable Ottoman-Turkish Mosques in the Balkans

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Name  | Images  | City  | Year  | Remarks

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Šarena Mosque |  | Tetovo | 1438 later rebuilt in 1833  |
Alaca Imaret Mosque |  | Thessaloniki | 1484 or 1487  |
Mustafa Pasha Mosque |  | Skopje | 1492  |
Ibrahim Pasha Mosque |  | Razgrad | 1516  |
Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque |  | Sarajevo | 1530  |
Ali Pasha Mosque (Sarajevo) |  | Sarajevo | 1560  |
Banya Bashi Mosque |  | Sofia | 1566  |
Bajrakli Mosque |  | Belgrad | 1575  |
Esmahan Sultan Mosque |  | Constanța County | 1575  |
Yakovalı Hasan Paşa Mosque |  | Pécs | late 16th-century  |
Sinan Pasha Mosque (Prizren) |  | Prizren | 1615  |
Tombul Mosque |  | Shumen | 1740-1744  |
Et'hem Bey Mosque |  | Tirana | 1819 or 1821  |
Azizyie Mosque |  | Tulcea | 1863  |

### Notable Ottoman-Turkish Mosques in Cyprus

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Main article: List of mosques in Cyprus

Name  | Images  | City  | Year  | Remarks

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Agha Cafer Pasha Mosque |  | Kyrenia | 1580s  |
Arabahmet Mosque |  | Nicosia (North)  | 1571  |
Araplar Mosque |  | Nicosia (South)  | ?  |
Bayraktar Mosque |  | Nicosia (South)  | 1571  | The first mosque built by the Ottomans after the conquest of Nicosia
Hala Sultan Tekke |  | Larnaca | 1816/17  |
Iplik Pazari Mosque |  | Nicosia (North)  | 18th century  |
Kebir Mosque |  | Limassol | ?  | "The Grand Mosque"
Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque |  | Famagusta | ?  | Originally known as the 'Saint Nicolas Cathedral', the French Lusignan dynasty constructed it between 1298 and 1312.
Ömeriye Mosque |  | Nicosia (South)  | 1571–1572  | First site of prayer by Turks on island of Cyprus following its conquest in 1571.
Osman Fazil Polat Pasha Mosque |  | Famagusta | ?  |
Selimiye Mosque |  | Nicosia (North)  | ?  | Originally known as the 'Saint Sophia Cathedral', the French Lusignan dynasty constructed it between 1209 and 1228.
Turunçlu Mosque |  | Nicosia (North)  | ·1825  |
Ziya Pasha Mosque |  | Dali
| 1837  |

### Notable Turkish Mosques in Western Europe

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Eyüp-Sultan Mosque |  | Austria (Telfs)  | 1998
Islamic Cultural Centre and Mosque  |  | Austria (Bad Vöslau)  | 2008
Yunus Emre Mosque  |  | Belgium (Genk)  |
Osmanli Mosque |  | France (Nantes)  | 2007–10
Alperenler Mosque |  | Germany (Rheinfelden)  | 1996
Cologne Central Mosque |  | Germany (Cologne)  | 2017
Centrum Mosque Hamburg |  | Germany (Hamburg)  | 1977
Centrum Mosque Rendsburg |  | Germany (Rendsburg)  | 2008
DITIB Merkez Mosque |  | Germany (Duisburg)  | 2004–08
Emir Sultan Mosque |  | Germany (Darmstadt)  | 1996
Emir Sultan Mosque  |  | Germany (Hilden)  | 1999
Eyüp Sultan Mosque |  | Germany (Gersthofen)  | 2008
Fatih Mosque |  | Germany (Bremen)  | 1973
Fatih-Moschee |  | Germany (Essen)  |
Fatih Mosque  |  | Germany (Heilbronn)  |
Fatih Mosque)  |  | Germany (Meschede)  | 2001–08
Fatih Mosque |  | Germany (Pforzheim)  | 1990–92
Fatih Mosque |  | Germany (Werl)  | 1990
Göttingen Mosque  |  | Germany (Göttingen)  | 2008
Great Mosque |  | Germany (Buggingen)  | 1995–2002
Kocatepe Mosque |  | Germany (Ingolstadt)  | 2008
Königswinter Mosque |  | Germany (Königswinter)  | 2001
Mehmet Akif Mosque  |  | Germany (Friedrichshafen)  |
Mevlana Mosque |  | Germany (Ravensburg)  | 2002–08
Mevlana Mosque |  | Germany (Eppingen)  | 1996–2003
Mevlana Moschee |  | Germany (Kassel)  | 2008–14
Mimar Sinan Mosque |  | Germany (Mosbach)  | 1993
Mimar Sinan Mosque  |  | Germany (Sachsenheim)  | 2007
Mimar Sinan Mosque |  | Germany (Wesseling)  | 1987
Şehitler Merkez Mosque  |  | Germany (Schwäbisch Gmünd)  | 2011–14
Şehitlik Mosque |  | Germany (Berlin)  | 2004
Ulu Mosque  |  | Germany (Sindelfingen)  | 2000
Vatan Mosque |  | Germany (Brackwede)  | 2004
Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque |  | Germany (Mannheim)  | 1995
Aksa Mosque |  | Netherlands (The Hague)  | Former synagogue converted into a mosque in 1981
Fatih-moskee |  | Netherlands (Amsterdam)  | Former church converted to a mosque in 1981
Mevlana Mosque |  | Netherlands (Rotterdam)  | 2001
Süleymaniye Mosque |  | Netherlands (Tilburg)  | 2001
Sultan Ahmet Mosque |  | Netherlands (Delft)  | 1995–2007
Ulu Mosque |  | Netherlands (Bergen op Zoom)  | 1984
Ulu Camii Mosque |  | Netherlands (Utrecht)  | 2008–15
Westermoskee (Ayasofya Mosque)  |  | Netherlands (Amsterdam)  | 2013–15
Fittja Mosque |  | Sweden (Fittja)  | 1998–2007
Mosque of the Olten Turkish Cultural Association  |  | Switzerland (Wangen bei Olten)  |
Aziziye Mosque |  | UK (London)  | 1983
Suleymaniye Mosque |  | UK (London)  | 1999
Shacklewell Lane Mosque |  | UK (London)  | Former synagogue converted to a mosque in 1977

## Politics

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See also: Long arm of Ankara

In March 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated to the Turks in Europe, "Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you." This has been interpreted as an imperialist call for demographic warfare.[176]

According to The Economist, Erdoğan is the first Turkish leader to take the Turkish diaspora seriously, which has created friction within these diaspora communities and between the Turkish government and several of its European counterparts.[177]

### List of Turkish founded political parties

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Various political parties have been formed by Turkish communities in the Balkans and Cyprus as well as in the Turkish diaspora.

Political party | Country | Year established | Founders | Current Leader | Position | Ideologies

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New Movement for the Future
(German: Neue Bewegung für die Zukunft, NBZ; Turkish: Gelecek İçin Yeni Hareket) | Austria | 2017 |  | Adnan Dinçer |  | Turkish and Muslim minority interests
Be.One | Belgium | 2018 | Meryem Kaçar, Dyab Abou Jahjah and Karim Hassoun |  | Left-wing | Multiculturalism, Feminism, Anti-racism
Multicultural Justice Party
(Dutch: Multiculturele Recht Partij, MRP; Turkish: Çok Kültürlü Adalet Partisi) | Belgium | 2017 | Murat Köylü | Murat Köylü |  | Turkish minority interests
Flemish Multicultural Collective
(Dutch: Vlaamse Multicultureel Collectief, VMC; Turkish: Flaman Çok Kültürlü Kültürel Kollektifi) | Belgium | 2018 | Ahmet Koç | Ahmet Koç |  | Turkish minority interests
Democrats for Responsibility, Solidarity and Tolerance
(Bulgarian: Демократи за отговорност, свобода и толерантност, ДОСТ/DOST; Turkish: Sorumluluk, Özgürlük ve Hoşgörü için Demokratlar) | Bulgaria | 2016 |  | Lyutvi Mestan | Centre | Liberalism, Europeanism, Anti-fascism, Anti-nationalism
Freedom and Dignity People's Party
(Bulgarian: Народна партия „Свобода и достойнство“, НПСД/NPSD; Turkish: Hürriyet ve Şeref Halk Partisi) | Bulgaria | 2012 |  | Orhan Ismailov |  | Liberalism
Movement for Rights and Freedoms
(Bulgarian: Движение за права и свободи, ДПС/DPS; Turkish: Hak ve Özgürlükler Hareketi) | Bulgaria | 1990 | Ahmed Dogan | Mustafa Karadaya | Centre | Liberalism, Social liberalism, Turkish minority interests
Jasmine Movement
(Greek: Κίνημα Γιασεμί; Turkish: Yasemin Hareketi) | Cyprus (south) | 2019 | Şener Levent |  | Left-wing | Left-wing nationalism, Unitarism, Cypriotism, Social democracy
Equality and Justice Party
(French: Parti égalité et justice, PEJ; Turkish: Eşitlik ve Adalet Partisi) | France | 2015 | Şakir Çolak | Şakir Çolak |  | Turkish minority interests, Muslim minority interests, Conservatism
Alternative for Migrants
(German: Alternative für Migranten, AfM; Turkish: Göçmenler için Alternatif) | Germany | 2019 |  |  |  | Turkish and Muslim minority interests
Alliance for Innovation and Justice
(German: Bündnis für Innovation und Gerechtigkeit, BIG; Turkish: Yenilik ve Adalet Birliği Partisi) | Germany | 2010 | Haluk Yıldız | Haluk Yıldız |  | Turkish and Muslim minority interests
Alliance of German Democrats
(German: Allianz Deutscher Demokraten, ADD; Turkish: Alman Demokratlar İttifakı) | Germany | 2016 | Remzi Aru | Ramazan Akbaş |  | Turkish and Muslim minority interests, Conservatism
Bremen Integration Party of Germany
(German: Bremische Integrations-Partei Deutschlands, BIP; Turkish: Almanya Bremen Entegrasyon Partisi) | Germany | 2010 |  | Levet Albayrak |  | Turkish and Muslim minority interests
Party of Friendship, Equality and Peace
(Greek: Κόμμα Ισότητας, Ειρήνης και Φιλίας, Κ.Ι.Ε.Φ/KIEF; Turkish: Dostluk-Eşitlik-Barış Partisi) | Greece | 1991 | Sâdık Ahmet | Cigdem Asafoglou | Centre | Turkish and Muslim minority interests, Social liberalism
Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo
(Turkish: Kosova Demokratik Türk Partisi, KDTP) | Kosovo | 1990 |  | Fikrim Damka | Centre-right | Turkish nationalism, Social conservatism, Economic liberalism
Denk, DENK | Netherlands | 2015 | Tunahan Kuzu and Selçuk Öztürk | Farid Azarkan | Left-wing | Turkish and Muslim minority interests, Multiculturalism, Social democracy
Communal Democracy Party
(Turkish: Toplumcu Demokrasi Partisi, TDP) | North Cyprus | 2007 | Mehmet Çakıcı | Cemal Özyiğit | Centre-left | Social democracy, United Cyprus, Cypriotism
Communal Liberation Party New Forces
(Turkish: Toplumcu Kurtuluş Partisi Yeni Güçler, TKP-YG) | North Cyprus | 2016 | Mehmet Çakıcı | Mehmet Çakıcı | Centre-left | Social democracy
Democratic Party
(Turkish: Demokrat Parti, DP) | North Cyprus | 1992 | Serdar Denktaş | Fikri Ataoğlu | Centre-right | Turkish Cypriot nationalism, Secularism, Conservatism, Two-state solution
National Unity Party
(Turkish: Ulusal Birlik Partisi, UBP) | North Cyprus | 1975 | Rauf Denktaş | Ersin Tatar | Centre-right | Turkish nationalism, Secularism, Two-state solution, Liberal conservatism, National conservatism
New Cyprus Party
(Turkish: Yeni Kıbrıs Partisi, YKP) | North Cyprus | 2004 |  | Murat Kanatlı | Left-wing | Democratic socialism, Eco-socialism, United Cyprus
People's Party
(Turkish: Halkın Partisi, HP) | North Cyprus | 2016 | Kudret Özersay | Kudret Özersay | Centre | Anti-corruption, Third Way, Populism
Rebirth Party
(Turkish: Yeniden Doğuş Partisi, YDP) | North Cyprus | 2016 | Erhan Arıklı | Erhan Arıklı | Right-wing | Turkish nationalism, Conservatism, Two-state solution
Republican Turkish Party
(Turkish: Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, CTP) | North Cyprus | 1970 | Ahmet Mithat Berberoğlu | Tufan Erhürman | Centre-left | Social democracy, United Cyprus, Cypriotism
United Cyprus Party
(Turkish: Birleşik Kıbrıs Partisi, BKP) | North Cyprus | 2003 | İzzet İzcan | İzzet İzcan | Left-wing | Socialism, United Cyprus
Democratic Party of Turks
(Macedonian: Демократска партија на Турците, DPT; Turkish: Türk Demokratik Partisi) | North Macedonia | 1990/92 |  | Beycan İlyas | Centre | Turkish minority interests
Democratic Turkish Union of Romania
(Romanian: Uniunea Democrată Turcă din România, UDTR; Turkish: Romanya Demokrat Türk Birliği) | Romania | 1990 |  | Osman Fedbi |  | Turkish minority interests

## See also

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* Turkish minorities in the former Ottoman Empire
* Turquerie
* Turkish population
* Accession of Turkey to the European Union
* Turkey–European Union relations
* Demographics of Europe
* European Turkey
* Immigration to Europe

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Turkish people by country

Traditional areas of
Turkish settlement|

| Turkish majorities:|

Turkey (Muhacirs), Northern Cyprus (Turkish Cypriot diaspora, Mainland Turks)

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Turkish minorities
in the Balkans:|

* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Greece
* Crete
* Dodecanese
* Western Thrace
* Kosovo
* North Macedonia
* Montenegro
* Romania
* Serbia

Turkish minorities
in the Caucasus:|

* Azerbaijan
* Georgia
* Abkhazia
* Meskhetia

Turkish minorities
in the Levant:|

* Iraq
* Turkmeneli
* Israel
* Jews
* Jordan
* Lebanon
* Palestine
* Syria
* Turkmen Mountain

Turkish minorities
in North Africa:|

* Algeria
* Kouloughlis
* Egypt
* Libya
* Tunisia

Other regions|

* Saudi Arabia
* Yemen

Diaspora in Africa|

South Africa

Diaspora in Europe|

* Austria
* Belgium
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Berlin
* Hungary
* Ireland
* Italy
* Liechtenstein
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* United Kingdom
* London

Diaspora in North America|

* Canada
* Mexico
* United States
* South Carolina

Diaspora in the Persian Gulf|

* Kuwait
* Qatar
* United Arab Emirates

Diaspora in Oceania|

* Australia
* New Zealand

Diaspora in South America|

* Argentina
* Brazil
* Venezuela

Diaspora in South Asia|

* Afghanistan
* India
* Pakistan

Diaspora in East Asia|

* China
* Japan

Diaspora in Post-Soviet States|

* Azerbaijan
* Kazakhstan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Russia
* Turkmenistan
* Ukraine
* Uzbekistan

Turkophobia|

* Persecution of Muslims during Ottoman contraction
* Exodus of Muslims from Serbia (1862)
* Kirkuk Massacre of 1924
* 1944 Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks
* Gavurbağı massacre
* Exodus of Turks from Bulgaria (1950-1951)
* 1956–1989 Assimilation of Bulgarian Turks
* 1959 Kirkuk massacre
* Bloody Christmas (1963)
* Akritas plan
* Afrikaanderwijk riots
* Revival Process
* Tochni massacre
* Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre
* Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations
* Assassination of Taha Carım
* Assassination of Orhan Gündüz
* Assassination of Erkut Akbay
* Assassination of Galip Balkar
* 1983 Orly Airport attack
* 1989 Fergana massacre
* 1990 Komotini events
* 1991 Altun Kupri massacre
* 1993 Solingen arson attack
* National Socialist Underground murders
* Murder of Enver Şimşek
* 2004 Cologne bombing
* Banya Bashi Mosque clashes
* Iraqi Turkmen genocide

See also|

* Turkish communities and minorities in the former Ottoman Empire
* Turkish population
* Turks in Europe
* Turks in the Arab world
* Kouloughlis
* Turks in the Balkans
* Turks in the former Soviet Union
* Turkish diaspora

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Muslims in Europe

Majority|

| Indo-European|

* Albanians
* Cham Albanians
* Bosniaks
* Gorani
* Kurds
* in Germany
* in France
* in the Netherlands
* Muslims
* Pomaks
* Talysh
* Tats

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Turkic|

* Azerbaijanis
* Balkars
* Bashkirs
* Crimean Tatars
* Crimean Roma
* Dobrujan Tatars
* Finnish Tatars
* Karachays
* Kazakhs
* Kumyks
* Lipka Tatars
* Nogais
* Tatars in Bulgaria
* Turks
* Cypriot
* Dodecanese
* German
* Meskhetian
* Western Thracian
* Other
* Volga Tatars
* Mishar Tatars
* Yörüks

North Caucasian|

* Abazins
* Abkhazians
* Sadz
* Andis
* Akhvakhs
* Bagvalals
* Botlikhs
* Chamalals
* Godoberis
* Karatas
* Tindis
* Avars
* Chechens
* Aukhs
* Kists
* Circassians
* Abzakhs
* Adygeans
* Besleneys
* Bzhedugs
* Chemirgoys
* Kabardians
* Natukhajs
* Shapsugs
* Ubykhs
* Dargins
* Kaitags
* Kubachins
* Tsudakhars
* Chirags
* Ingush
* Laks
* Lezgins
* Aghuls
* Archis
* Budukh
* Rutuls
* Khinalugs
* Kryts
* Tabasarans
* Tsakhurs
* Jeks
* Tsez
* Bezhtas
* Hinukhs
* Hunzibs
* Khwarshis

Kartvelian|

* Lazs
* Ingiloys

Uralic|

* Besermyan

Other|

* Arabs
* in Europe
* Moors
* in Spain
* Berbers
* in France
* in Belgium
* in the Netherlands
* Dönmeh

Minority|

* Afghans
* Bengalis
* Bulgarian
* Croats
* Georgians
* Adjarians
* Meskhetians
* Greek
* Vallahades
* Cretan
* Hemshenis
* Macedonian
* Maghrebis
* Pakistanis
* Megleno-Romanians
* Ossetians
* Romani
* Arlije
* Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians
* Crimean Roma
* Serbs

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