Turks in Hungary

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Turks in Hungary
Total population
"Ottoman Turkish": 1,565 (2001 census)[1]
"Bulgarian-Turkish": 91 (2001 census)[1]
Turkish citizens: 2,500 (2015 est.)
Regions with significant populations
Budapest, Pécs, Siklós
Languages
Turkish  · Hungarian
Religion
Islam

The Turks in Hungary, also referred to as Turkish Hungarians and Hungarian Turks, (

Republic of Turkey, as well as other post-Ottoman states (such as Bulgaria).[1]

History

See also: Ottoman Hungary

Culture

Language

Most Hungarian Turks are

bilingual and can speak both Turkish and Hungarian. Moreover, due to the Ottoman rule during the 16th-17th centuries, the Turkish language has also influenced greater Hungarian society; today, there are still numerous Turkish loanwords in the Hungarian language.[3]

Turkish Hungarian English
Cebimde çok küçük elma var[4] Zsebemben sok kicsi alma van[4] I have many small apples in my pocket

Religion

See also: Islam in Hungary

The Turkish people, alongside the Arabs, make up the majority of the

Siklos.[6]

Population

According to the 2001 census, 2,711 inhabitants declared their language under the "Turkish language family", of which, the majority (57.73%) stated that they belonged to the "Ottoman Turkish" ethnicity (1,565).[1] Furthermore, 12 individuals declared to be "Turk" and 91 "Bulgarian-Turkish" (see Bulgarian Turks); the rest declared other Turkic ethnicities.[1] In the 2011 census 5,209 inhabitants declared themselves under "Török nyelvek" ("Turkish languages"); however, the publication does not show the distinction between different Turkic groups.[7]

In addition, there is also approximately 2,500 recent Turkish immigrants from Turkey living in Hungary.[8]

Organizations and associations

In 2005 the Turkish community, alongside ethnic Hungarian Muslims, established "The Dialogue Platform".[9] By 2012, a new Turkish cultural association the "Gül Baba Turkish-Hungarian Cultural Association" was established in Szentendre, near Budapest.[9]

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Hungarian Central Statistical Office. "Factors of the nationality of the population based on affiliation with cultural values, knowledge of languages". Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  2. ^ Melek, Çolak (2007), "Macaristan'da Müslümanlık ve İmam Abdüllatif Efendi (1909-1946)" (PDF), International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, 38: 1002
  3. ISBN 1853598119
  4. ^
    ISBN 9789750500473
  5. ISBN 9047428501
  6. ^ Lederer 2009, 163.
  7. ^ Központi Statisztikai Hivatal. "2011. ÉVI NÉPSZÁMLÁLÁS: 4. Demográfiai adatok" (PDF). p. 36. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  8. ^ Hurriyet. "Macaristan Türk yatırımcı bekliyor". Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  9. ^
    ISBN 9004283056
  10. ^ "Zakaria Erzinçlioglu". The Telegraph. 2002. Retrieved 22 November 2017. Zakaria Erzinçlioglu who has died of a heart attack aged 50, was Britain's leading forensic entomologist...Zakaria Erzinçlioglu was born on December 30, 1951 in Hungary to parents of Turkish origin.
  11. ISBN 8772887192
    , Its leader Gyorgy Ekrem Kemál - a name inherited from the Turkish father executed in 1957
  12. ^ "A Holocaust Memorial in Hungary created by a Turk". Salom. 2002. Retrieved 22 November 2017. Born to a Turkish refugee family living in Budapest, in 1955, Can Togay (János)...
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