Ossetians in Turkey

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Ossetians and Abkhazians in Istanbul protest against the intervention of Georgian troops in South Ossetia , August 2008

The Ossetians in Turkey ( Ossetian Турчы ирӕттӕ Turčy irættæ , Turkish Türkiye Osetleri ) represent one of the smaller ethnic minorities in Turkey with around 100,000 people . The Iranian- speaking Ossetians are an immigrant Caucasian people; the vast majority speak Ossetian as their mother tongue. The Ossetians in Turkey are mainly Muslim .

history

Like the Circassians and Chechens, the Ossetians came to the Ottoman Empire as refugees from the North Caucasus after the Caucasus War 1817–1864 and the Russo-Turkish War 1877–1878 .

Settlement area

The Ossetians live scattered throughout Turkey and mainly in a few villages in the provinces of Muş , Sivas , Tokat and Yozgat , two villages each in Bitlis and Kars and one village each in Erzurum , Kayseri and Niğde . There is also the diaspora community in the metropolis of Istanbul and other major Turkish cities.

Well-known Ossetians

  • Bekir Sami Kunduh was an Ottoman and Turkish diplomat and politician and the first foreign minister of the Republic of Turkey.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNHCR : The North Caucasian Diaspora in Turkey (English)
  2. ↑ Minority Rights Group International: Bir eşitlik arayışı: Türkiye'de azınlıklar ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 540 kB); P. 13. (Turkish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.migrapolis-deutschland.de
  3. ↑ WED Allen, Paul Muratoff: Caucasian Battlefields - A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921. Battery Press, Nashville 1966, ISBN 0898392969 , p. 104 (English)