Germans in Turkey
In 2007 there were an estimated 50,000 Germans living in Turkey ( Turkish : Türkiyeli Almanlar ), mainly Germans married to Turkish spouses, professionals, pensioners and long-term tourists who spend most of the year in the country. Many of them own an apartment or a house on the Turkish coast or in a coastal region.
In addition, the descendants of living in Turkey German exiles who during the time of National Socialism in Turkey fled and remained there after the war.
The Bosporus Germans in Istanbul are ethnic Germans with Turkish citizenship, whose ancestors (some since the late Middle Ages) lived in the Ottoman Empire .
There are also Turks who have lived in the Federal Republic of Germany for a long time and have returned to Turkey . Many of these Germany-Turks have a German passport or dual (i.e. German and Turkish ) citizenship.
history
The officials and craftsmen who were posted during the close relationship with the Ottoman Empire at the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II formed the then so-called Bosporus Germans . Some Germans in this group converted to Islam in the 1920s . After their return they settled as a small Islamic community in Germany or in the Berlin area .
1933 and in the years that followed, after the takeover of the Nazi regime in the German Reich , emigrated or fled many German in Turkey. German emigrants - including numerous academics - were offered professorships at Turkish universities. The number of “exiled Germans”, who settled mainly in Istanbul and Ankara , rose to an estimated 800.
See also
- German-Turkish friendship treaty
- German-Turkish relations
- German-Ottoman Alliance
- The bridge (association)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d Cem Şentürk: The Germans in Turkey . Turkofamerica. October 15, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2010.