Turks in Libya

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Kouloughlis In Libya
Regions with significant populations
  • Arabic
Religion
Sunni Islam

The Turks in Libya, also commonly referred to as Kouloughlis(

Libyan population over time. They mainly make up a small fraction of the populations of the cities, Misrata and Tripoli.[1]

During

Janissaries intermarried with the native population, and their offspring were referred to as Kouloughlis (Turkish: kuloğlu) due to their mixed heritage.[3][4]

After the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, Turks continued to migrate to Libya from the newly established modern states. However, contrary to popular belief, the large majority of said migrants were Cretan Muslims, who were often referred to as Turks by some Christian Greeks due to their religion; not their ethnic background.

History

Ottoman Libya

Ottoman flag raised in the city of Benghazi
Courtyard of the Karamanly House Museum. The historic house was built by Yusuf Karamanli.

During

Janissaries intermarried with the native population, and their offspring were referred to as Kouloughlis (Turkish: kuloğlu) due to their mixed heritage.[3][5]

Today there no Libyans who their ethnicity as

Janissaries
through Oral Family Genealogy and History.

Italian Libya

After Libya fell to the Italians in 1911, most Kouloughlis still remained in the region, They played no role in the Resistance itself, and remained an idle, subservient, minority of the population.

Culture

As a result of four centuries of Ottoman Presence/Alliance to and within Libya, the Libyans left some of their cultural imprints on the Turks, particularly their language, food, and costumes, which the Kouloughlis adopted from the locals.

Religion

The

Hanafi School of Islam during the Ottoman
, However the large majority of the Sunni Muslim Libyan population follows the Maliki school of thought.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ Pan 1949, 103.
  2. ^ a b c Malcolm & Losleben 2004, 62.
  3. ^ a b Stone 1997, p. 29.
  4. ^ Milli Gazete. "Levanten Türkler". Archived from the original on 2010-02-23. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  5. ^ Milli Gazete. "Levanten Türkler". Archived from the original on 2010-02-23. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  6. ^ a b c d e Tastekin, Fehim (2019). "Are Libyan Turks Ankara's Trojan horse?". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  7. ^ حسني بي: أنا من ضمن المليون تركماني في ليبيا, Alsaaa24, 2019, retrieved 2 January 2020
  8. ^ Habib, Henry (1981), Libya: Past and Present, Edam Publishing House, p. 42
  9. ^ Hurriyet Daily News. "Turkey's living link to Ottoman Libya: Son of former PM tells father's story". Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  10. ^ Yeaw, Katrina Elizabeth Anderson (2017), Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, 1890-1980, Georgetown University, p. 152

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