Chechens in Turkey

Chechen children in the Istanbul refugee camp

The Chechens in Turkey ( ch etsch. And Ingush Туркойчура нохчий / Turcer noxçiy , Turkish Türkiye Çeçenleri ) With about 70,000 people one of the smaller ethnic minorities in Turkey is. The Chechens also closely related ethnic group is in Turkey Ingush counted . Chechens are an immigrant Caucasian people; the vast majority speak Chechen and Ingush as their mother tongue. Chechens in Turkey are mainly Muslim .

history

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

During the Second Chechen War 1999–2009, thousands more Chechen refugees came to Turkey. These refugees were housed in refugee camps in Istanbul and Yalova . Today around 1,000 Chechen refugees live in Turkey, 700 of them in these refugee camps.

Settlement area

See also : List of places inhabited by Chechens in Turkey

Chechens live scattered throughout Turkey and mainly in a few villages in the provinces of Adana , Kahramanmaraş , Kars , Muş , Sivas and Yozgat as well as one village each in Çanakkale and Kayseri . Then there is the diaspora community in the metropolis of Istanbul and other major Turkish cities.

Well-known Chechens

• Ramazan Şahin - Turkish freestyle wrestler

See also

• Ethnic groups in Turkey

literature

• Şamil Mansur: Çeçenler . Sam Yayınları, Istanbul 1995, ISBN 975-520-654 . (Turkish)

Web links

Commons : Chechens in Turkey  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kristiina Markkanen: Chechen refugee came to Finland via Baku and Istanbul. (English)
2. ^ Minority Rights Group International: Bir eşitlik arayışı: Türkiye'de azınlıklar. ( Memento of the original from 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) 
3. ↑ WED Allen, Paul Muratoff: Caucasian Battlefields - A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921 . Battery Press, Nashville 1966, ISBN 0-89839-296-9 , p. 104. (English)
4. ↑ To be a Chechen refugee in Turkey ... (English)