Roma in Turkey
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The Roma in Turkey descend from the times of the Byzantine Empire. Records about their presence in 9th century Anatolia exist, where they arrived form Persia. With the expanse of the Ottoman Empire Turkish Roma settled in Rumelia (Southern Europe under the Ottoman rule). The decendants of the Ottoman Roma today are known as Xoraxane Roma and are of the Islamic faith.[1]
In modern Turkey Xoraxane Roma do not have a legal status of ethnic minority. This goes as far back as the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), in which Section III "Protection of Minorities" put an emphasis on non-Muslim minorities .[2]
By different estimates the number of Roma in Turkey range from 0.3 to 0.6 million.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Elena Marushiakova, Veselin Popov (2001) "Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire", ISBN 1902806026University of Hertfordshire Press
- Original: Елена Марушиакова, Веселин Попов (2000) "Циганите в Османската империя". Литавра, София (Litavra Publishers, Sofia).(Bulgarian)
- ^ "Treaty of Lausanne"
- ^ No official count; estimate from Reaching the Romanlar—A Feasibility Study Report (International Romani Studies Network), Istanbul: 2006, p.13. See also Turkey: A Minority Policy of Systematic Negation (IHF report) and SERİN, Ayten (08.05.2005). AB ülkeleriyle ortak bir noktamız daha ÇİNGENELER. Hürriyet. Retrieved on September 23, 2006.
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