Turks in Egypt
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The Turks in Egypt, also referred to as Egyptian Turks, Turkish-Egyptians and Turco-Egyptians
History
Mamluk era
Ottoman era
During the four centuries of Ottoman rule, Turkish settlers arrived predominately from
In 1833 one estimate claimed that the Turkish population in Egypt was 30,000;[4] however, in 1835, the Missionary Herald newspaper claimed that the population [of Ottoman Egypt] is of a mixed character, the great mass being Arabic language speaking Muslims, and a minority of Turkish speakers who belonged to the Ottoman ruling-class.[5] Similarly, in 1840, The Saturday Magazine series claimed that Egypt's population was only about two million and a half, the majority of whom are of Arabic speaking masses and Ottoman ruling class.[6] This study is widely discredited and has no scientific basis.
By 1878 the Karl Baedeker Firm published a census stating that the population of Egypt "hardly exceeds 5 millions" and that the population of Turkish origin numbered barely 100,000 (accounting to approximately 2% of the population), mainly concentrated to the towns.[7]
| Foreign-born Ottomans in Egypt: [1907 - 1917] census[8] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ethnic group | 1907 census | 1917 census |
| Turks | 27,591 | 8,471 |
| Arabs | 440 | 386 |
| Armenians | 7,747 | 7,760 |
| Greeks | N/A | 4,258 |
| Jews | N/A | 1,243 |
| Syrians (including Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds etc.) |
33,947 | 7,728 |
| Other races | 951 | N/A |
| Total Foreign-born | 69,725 | 30,797 |
Post-Ottoman era
Prior to the
"This interiorized rejection of things local and Arabic in part derives from the fact that the ruling and upper classes in the years before the revolution were mainly Turkish, or of Turkish descent, part of the heritage from the Ottoman rule in Egypt. If one was not really Western, but belonged to the elite, one was Turkish. Only the masses, the country folk, were quite simply Egyptian in the first place, and possibly Arabs secondarily."[9]
Culture
Language
During the Ottoman rule of Egypt, the region was ruled directly by Turkish-speaking elites.[10] Consequently, the lexical Turkish influence of Egyptian Arabic has been clearer and more consistent than in Levantine Arabic, especially the formal terms like Pasha and Bek which are still used till today in daily conversations.[10] Today, many Turkish lexical items (and Persian borrowings through Turkish) have been firmly integrated into Egyptian Arabic.[10]
Population
According to an article by
See also
- List of Egyptian people of Turkish descent
- History of Ottoman Egypt
- Egypt in the Middle Ages
- Turkish minorities in the former Ottoman Empire
- Turks in the Arab world
- Iraqi Turkmens
- Syrian Turkmens
- Turks in Algeria
- Turks in Lebanon
- Turks in Tunisia
- Oghuz Turks
- Egypt–Turkey relations
References
- ISBN 1108025536
- ^ DNA analysis proves that Egyptians are Ethnic North Africans not Arabs, 17 January 2017,
Only 17 percent of Egyptians are Arabs, while 68 percent of the indigenous population is from North Africa, four percent are from Jewish ancestry, three percent are of East African origins, another three percent from Asia Minor and three percent are South European.
- ASIN B0014V7JAI. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- OCLC 1377895. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Syria and the Holy Land. Extracts from a Communication of Mr.Smith, Dated at Beyroot, vol. xxxi, Missionary Herald, 1835, p. 130
- ^ The church scholar's reading-book, selected from the Saturday magazine, The Saturday Magazine, 1840, p. 297
- ^ "Turks", Egypt: Lower Egypt, with the Fayûm and the peninsula of Sinai, Part 1 of Egypt: Handbook for Travellers, K. Baedeker, 1878, p. 52
- ISBN 978-0231542524
- ^ ISBN 978-1-934043-71-4
- ^ ISBN 3110184184
- ^ Gamal, Gamal, Did the Turks sweeten Egypt's kitty?, Al-Ahram Weekly, retrieved 1 May 2018,
Today, the number of ethnic Turks in Egypt varies considerably, with estimates ranging from 100,000 to 1,500,000. Most have intermingled in Egyptian society and are almost indistinguishable from non-Turkish Egyptians, even though a considerable number of Egyptians of Turkish origin are bilingual.
- ISBN 978-0415456531.
- ^ Akar, Metin (1993), "Fas Arapçasında Osmanlı Türkçesinden Alınmış Kelimeler", Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi, 7: 94–95,
Günümüzde, Arap dünyasında hâlâ Türk asıllı aileler mevcuttur. Bunların nüfusu Irak'ta 2 milyon, Suriye'de 3.5 milyon, Mısır'da 1.5, Cezayir'de 1 milyon, Tunus'ta 500 bin, Suudî Arabistan'da 150 bin, Libya'da 50 bin, Ürdün'de 60 bin olmak üzere 8.760.000 civarındadır. Bu ailelerin varlığı da Arap lehçelerindeki Türkçe ödünçleşmeleri belki artırmış olabilir.
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