Turks in Russia

Ethnic group in Russia

Ethnic group

Turks in RussiaTotal population

109,883 (2010 census)
Regions with significant populations

* Belgorod Oblast
* Kabardino-Balkaria
* Krasnodar Krai
* North Ossetia–Alania
* Rostov Oblast
* Stavropol Krai

Languages

* Turkish
* Russian

Religion
Predominantly Sunni Islam
Minority Alevism, Other religions and Irreligion
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Turkish people

People

* List of Turkish people

Population

Traditional Areas of Turkish Settlement

Turkish majorities:

* Turkey
* Northern Cyprus

* Turkish minorities in the Balkans:

* Bosnia
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Greece
* Kosovo
* Montenegro
* North Macedonia
* Romania
* Serbia

* Turkish minorities in the Caucasus:

* Azerbaijan
* Georgia (Abkhazia and Meskhetia)

* Turkish minorities in the Levant:

* Iraq
* Israel
* Jordan
* Lebanon
* Syria

* Turkish minorities in North Africa:

* Algeria
* Egypt
* Libya
* Tunisia

* Other Turkish minorities:

* Hungary
* Saudi Arabia
* Yemen

* Modern Turkish diasporas

* Turkish diasporas in Europe:

* Austria
* Belgium
* Denmark
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Ireland
* Italy
* Liechtenstein
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Russia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom

* Turkish diasporas in the Americas:

* Canada
* Mexico
* United States

* Turkish diasporas in Central Asia:

* Kazakhstan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Turkmenistan
* Uzbekistan

* Turkish diasporas in Oceania:

* Australia
* New Zealand

* Other Turkish diasporas:

* Japan
* Kuwait
* Pakistan
* Qatar
* South Africa
* United Arab Emirates

History

* Prehistory of Anatolia
* Prehistory of Eastern Thrace
* Classical Anatolia
* Byzantine Anatolia
* The Seljuqs
* Anatolian beyliks
* Ottoman Empire
* Republic of Turkey

Culture

* Architecture
* Art
* Carpets
* Cinema
* Cuisine
* Culture of the Ottoman Empire
* Dance
* Festivals
* Folklore
* Literature
* Miniature
* Music
* Nazar boncuğu
* Public holidays
* Shadow plays
* Sports
* Theatre

Languages

* Turkish
* Cypriot Turkish
* Ottoman Turkish
* Karamanli Turkish
* Old Anatolian Turkish
* Oghuz

* Turkic & Altaic

Religion

* Atatürk's Reforms
* Secularism
* Freedom of religion
* Presidency of Religious Affairs

* Islam (Mosques)
* Christianity
* Judaism
* Bahá'í Faith

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Turks in Russia (Turkish: Rusya'daki Türkler, Russian: Турки в России), also referred to as Turkish Russians or Russian Turks, refers to people of full or partial ethnic Turkish origin who have either immigrated to Russia or who were born in the Russian state. The community is largely made up of several migration waves, including: descendants of Ottoman-Turkish captives during the Russo-Turkish wars; the Turkish Meskhetian community; and the more recent Turkish immigrants from the Republic of Turkey.[1]

## History

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After being found aged 4 in Ottoman Bulgaria, Ayşe was adopted by Russian soldiers during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and Christened under the name Maria Kexholmskaia [ru].[2]

### Ottoman migration

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The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union in 1926 recorded 8,570 Ottoman Turks living in the Soviet Union. The Ottoman Turks are no longer listed separately in the census, as it is presumed that those who were living in Russia in the 1920s have subsequently either been assimilated into Russian society or have left the country.[3]

### Meskhetian Turks migration

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During World War II, the Soviet Union was preparing to launch a pressure campaign against Turkey. Vyacheslav Molotov, who was at the time the Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a request of the Turkish Ambassador in Moscow that Turkey surrender three Anatolian provinces (Kars, Ardahan and Artvin).[11] Thus, war against Turkey seemed possible, and Joseph Stalin wanted to commit a genocide to the strategic Turkish population situated in Meskheti, near the Turkish-Georgian border, since during the Russo-Turkish Wars the Turks of the region had been loyal to the Ottoman Empire and were therefore likely to be hostile to Soviet intentions.[11][12] In 1944, the Meskhetian Turks were forcefully deported from Meskheti, Georgia and accused of smuggling, banditry and espionage in collaboration with their kin across the Turkish border.[13]

Soviet authorities issued an official ruling that 17,000 Meskhetian Turks, virtually the entire Turkish population in the Ferghana Valley, be transported to Russia. Another 70,000 Meskhetian Turks from other parts of Uzbekistan soon followed the first wave of migrants and settled mainly in Azerbaijan and Russia.

In the late 1970s, the Stavropol and Krasnodar authorities visited various regions of Uzbekistan to invite and recruit Meskhetian Turks to work in agriculture enterprises in southern Russia.[4] In 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.[5] 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.[6][7] Meskhetian Turks maintain that Moscow had planned the Uzbek riots.[7] By the early 1990s, the 70,000 Meskhetian Turks who were still resident in Uzbekistan left for Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine due to fears of continued violence.[6]

### Mainland Turkish migration

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During the 2000s, Russia witnessed increasing numbers of immigrants from Turkey; the number of Turkish labour migrants grew, on average, by 30–50% per annum.[8] By 2008, over 130,000 Turkish citizens were working in Russia; most Turkish immigrants are those who married Russians in Turkey and then came to reside in the homeland of their spouse.[8] [failed verification]

## Demographics

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See also: Demographics of Russia and Russian Census (2002)

According to the 2010 Russian Census, 105,058 people declared themselves as "Turks" and 4,825 stated that they were "Meskhetian Turks"; hence, the census showed that there was a total of 109,883 Turks living in the country.[9]

Turks in Russia according to the Russian Census

Russian census  | Turks
1939[10] | 2,936
1959[11] | 1,377
1970[12] | 1,568
1979[13] | 3,561
1989[14] | 9,890
2002[15] | 95,672[a]
2010[9] | 109,883[b]

## Discrimination

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Meskhetian Turks in Russia, especially those in Krasnodar, have faced hostility from the local population. The Meskhetian Turks of Krasnodar have suffered significant human rights violations, including the deprivation of their citizenship. They have been deprived of civil, political and social rights and are prohibited from owning property and employment.[16] Since 2004, many are now leaving the Krasnodar region for the United States as refugees.[17]

## Noble families

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* Turchaninov family
* Zaplatin family [ru]

## Notable people

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Ivan Aksakov Alina Boz Vasily Ekimov Vasily Kapnist Can Maxim Mutaf Alexey Verstovsky Vasily Zhukovsky

This list includes people of full and partial Turkish origin.

* Olga Semyonovna Zaplatina Aksakov, wife of Sergey Aksakov (Turkish mother)[18][19]
* children:
* Grigory Sergeevich Aksakov [ru], Privy Councillor (Turkish grandmother)[19]
* Ivan Aksakov, littérateur and notable Slavophile (Turkish grandmother)[19][18]
* Konstantin Aksakov, critic and writer (Turkish grandmother)[20][19]
* Vera Aksakova, writer known for her diaries at the time of the Crimean War (Turkish grandmother)[19]
* Alina Boz, actress (Turkish Bulgarian father)[21][22]
* Ivan Bunin,
* Vladislav Dikidzhi, Russian figure skater
* Elena Dmitrievna, Turkish captive during the Siege of Anapa; she converted to Christianity and married Mikhail Shchepkin[23][24]
* children and descendants:
* Dmitry Mikhailovich Schepkin [ru], philologist
* Nikolai Mikhailovich Schepkin [ru], publisher, teacher and public figure
* Evgeny Nikolaevich Schepkin [ru], historian, teacher and public figure
* Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Shchepkin  [ru], linguist and art historian
* Nikolai Nikolaevich Shchepkin [ru]), politician
* Petr Mikhailovich, lawyer, assistant chairman of the Moscow District Court
* Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, writer, dramatist, poet and translator
* Fyokla (Faina) Mikhailovna, actress
* Alexandra Mikhailovna, actress
* Dmitry Andreevich Dril [ru], criminologist (paternal Turkish grandmother)
* Vasily Ekimov, sculptor (works include the Bronze Horseman, the Samson Fountain, and the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky)[25]
* Niyaz Ilyasov, judoka; medalists winner in the 2018 and 2019 World Judo Championships (Turkish Meskhetian origin)[26]
* Strongilla Irtlach [ru], singer and theater actress
* Tina Kandelaki, journalist, public figure, TV presenter and producer (half Turkish mother)[27]
* Vasily Kapnist, playwright and nobleman (Turkish mother)[28][29]
* Alemdar Karamanov, composer (Turkish father)[30]
* Maria Kexholmskaia [ru], Turkish child adopted by Russian soldiers during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878); she became a nurse during World War I[2]
* Eşref Kolçak, actor (Turkish father)[31]
* Elizaveta Vasilievna Krupskaya, mother-in-law of Vladimir Lenin (Turkish great-grandmother)[32]
* children:
* Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary and the wife of Vladimir Lenin
* Aishat Magomayev [ru], actress (Turkish father)[33]
* Muslim Magomayev, opera and pop singer (Turkish maternal grandfather)[33]
* Sarper David Mutaf, basketball player
* Maxim Can Mutaf, basketball player (Turkish father)[34]
* Mamedov Minur İsa Oğlu [ru], Soviet war hero during the Great Patriotic War (Turkish Meskhetian origin)[35]
* Konstantin Paustovsky, writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965 (partial Turkish origin)[36]
* Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika, second Russian ambassador to the United States (Turkish mother)[37][38]
* Ekaterina Pavlovna Rosengeim, adopted daughter of Dmitry Golitsyn (Turkish mother)
* Malik Mukhlis Ugli [ru], educator (Turkish Meskhetian origin)
* Alexey Verstovsky, composer and musical bureaucrat (Turkish grandmother)[39][40]
* Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky, poet and a leading figure in Russian literature (Turkish mother)[41][42]
* children and descendants:
* Alexandra Zhukovskaya, Countess of the Russian Empire (Turkish grandmother)
* Aleksey Belevsky-Zhukovsky, Count of the Russian Empire (Turkish great-grandmother)

## See also

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* Turkey portal
* Russia portal

* Russia–Turkey relations
* Russians in Turkey
* Turks in the former Soviet Union
* Turks in Armenia
* Turks in Azerbaijan
* Turks in Ukraine
* Turks in Kazakhstan
* Turks in Europe
* Turks in Finland
* Turks in Germany
* Turks in Poland
* Turks in Sweden

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## Notes

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^ a: The 2002 census recorded 92,415 Turks and 3,257 Meskhetian Turks.
^ b: The 2010 census recorded 105,058 Turks and 4,825 Meskhetian Turks.

## Bibliography

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* Akiner, Shirin (1983), Islamic Peoples of the Soviet Union, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-7103-0025-5.
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* Kurbanov, Rafik Osman-Ogly; Kurbanov, Erjan Rafik-Ogly (1995), "Religion and Politics in the Caucasus", in Bourdeaux, Michael (ed.), The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 1-56324-357-1.
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* Koryo-saram
* Sakhalin
* North Koreans
* Kurds
* Yazidi
* Nepalis
* Turks
* Uzbeks
* Vietnamese

Europe|

* Belarusians
* British
* English
* Scottish
* Finns
* Germans
* history
* Greeks
* Irish
* Latvians
* Lithuanians
* Moldovans
* Norwegians
* Poles
* Serbs
* Swedes
* Swiss
* Ukrainians

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* Romani (Ruska Roma)
* Demographics
* Ethnic groups
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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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