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Turkish Cypriots are those inhabitants of Cyprus who are ethnically Turkish^[1], as opposed to those who are of Greek (the Greek Cypriots) or other ethnicities. Within Northern Cyprus the term is sometimes used to refer explicitly to indigenous Cypriots as opposed to Anatolian Turkish migrants who have settled there in the past three decades. Greek Cypriot refers to the Greek-speaking population of Cyprus. ... The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus(TRNC) {NOTE: the name is not accepted by UN} , in Turkish Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, is a self-proclaimed state occupying the northern third of the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. ... Anatolia lies east of the Bosphorus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Anatolia is a peninsula of Western Asia which forms the greater part of the Asian portion of Turkey, as opposed to the European portion (Thrace, or traditionally Rumelia). ... Historically, people who migrated to settle permanently in colonies controlled by their country of origin were called colonists or settlers. ...

There are more than 447,000^{[citation needed]} Turkish Cypriots in the world. A census took place in the TRNC at the end of April 2006 the results of this census which are disputed by the Republic of Cyprus have said that the population of Northern Cyprus was 264,172 ^[2]. There has been no de facto census since 1960. ^[3] There are approx. 200,000 Turkish Cypriots in the United Kingdom, 50,000 in Australia, 10,000 in North America, 2,000 in the Republic of Cyprus and 5,000 spread across other countries. Number of Turkish Cypriots in Turkey is unclear; one Turkish Cypriot source ^[4] suggests 500,000 but this information is unverified. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus(TRNC) {NOTE: the name is not accepted by UN} , in Turkish Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, is a self-proclaimed state occupying the northern third of the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. ... April 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Events 1 April 2006 (Saturday) Marcos Pontes, Brazils first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. ... The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus(TRNC) {NOTE: the name is not accepted by UN} , in Turkish Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, is a self-proclaimed state occupying the northern third of the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

History

With the Ottoman conquest, the ethnic and cultural composition of Cyprus changed drastically. Although the island had been ruled by Venetians, its population was Greek. Turkish rule brought an influx of settlers speaking a different language and entertaining other cultural traditions and beliefs. In accordance with the decree of Sultan Selim II, some 5,720 households left Turkey from the Karaman, Içel, Konya, Alanya, Antalya, and Aydın regions of Anatolia and migrated to Cyprus. The Turkish migrants were largely farmers, but some earned their livelihoods as shoemakers, tailors, weavers, cooks, masons, tanners, jewelers, miners, and workers in other trades. In addition, some 12,000 soldiers, 4,000 cavalrymen, and 20,000 former soldiers and their families stayed in Cyprus. Map of the Venetian Republic, circa 1000 CE. The republic is in dark red, borders in light red. ... Selim II Selim II (May 28, 1524 – December 12, 1574) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death. ... Anatolia lies east of the Bosphorus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Anatolia is a peninsula of Western Asia which forms the greater part of the Asian portion of Turkey, as opposed to the European portion (Thrace, or traditionally Rumelia). ...

According to Ottoman historian Professor Ronald Jennings, up to one third of Muslims in Cyprus listed in court records in the early sixteenth century were converts to the religion from Christianity. Jennings as well as other historians notes that a majority of Muslim later to become Turkish Cypriot villages were formerly either the estates of Latins or Maronites, suggesting that conversion to Islam was from Catholicism and not Greek Orthodoxy in the initial period of Ottoman rule. Travelling pilgrim Rev. Jerome Dandini noted during his visit to the island that these converts formed a Muslim-Christian Sect of Crypto-Christians, the derogatory local name of which is "linobamvaki" meaning "Cotton-Linen Sect" owing to the unceretainty of whether these people were Christians or Muslims. In terms of language, the community, which it is claimed formed one third of Muslim Cypriots in the 19th century spoke Greek in preference to Turkish, which was the lingua franca on the island as indeed in Anatolia and the Pontus for all Eastern Christians.

The Ottoman Empire allowed its non-Muslim ethnic communities (or millets) a degree of autonomy if they paid their taxes and were obedient subjects. The millet system permitted Greek Cypriots to remain in their villages and maintain their traditional institutions. The Turkish immigrants often lived by themselves in new settlements, but many lived in the same villages as Greek Cypriots. For the next four centuries, the two communities lived side by side throughout the island. Despite this physical proximity, each ethnic community had its own culture and there was little intermingling. Both communities, for example, considered interethnic marriage taboo^{[citation needed]}, although it did sometimes occur. Motto: دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem: Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1680, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299-1326) Bursa (1326-1365) Edirne (1365-1453) Constantinople (Istanbul) (1453-1922) Language(s) Ottoman Turkish Government Monarchy Sultans  - 1281–1326 Osman I  - 1918–1922 Mehmed VI... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Greek Cypriot refers to the Greek-speaking population of Cyprus. ...

Until the island came under British administration in 1878, there were only rough estimates of Cyprus's population and its ethnic breakdown. In more recent times, population figures became highly controversial after it was agreed that the government established in 1960 was to be staffed at a 70-to-30 ratio of Greek and Turkish Cypriots, although the latter made up only 18 percent of the island's population. For this reason, the population figures were a vital issue in the island's government, likely to affect any far-reaching political settlements in the 1990s. 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

About 40,000 to 60,000 Turks lived on Cyprus in the late sixteenth century, according to Ottoman migration figures. In the eighteenth century, the British consul in Syria believed that the Turkish population on the island outnumbered the Greek population by a ratio of two to one. According to his estimates, the Greek Cypriots numbered 20,000 and the Turkish population around 60,000. Most historians do not accept his estimate, however. If there was a Turkish majority, it did not last. By the time of the first British census of the island in 1881, Greek Cypriots numbered 140,000 and Turkish Cypriots 42,638. One reason suggested for the small number of Turkish Cypriots was that many of them sold their property and migrated to mainland Turkey when the island was placed under British administration. Consul (abbrev. ... 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

There was a significant Turkish Cypriot exodus from the island between 1950 and 1974 when thousands left the island, mainly for Britain and Australia. The migration had two phases. The first lasted from 1950 to 1960, when Turkish Cypriots benefited from liberal British immigration policies as the island gained its independence, and many Turkish Cypriots settled in London, escaping the civil unrest on the island. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

The few years leading to 1974 the number of Turkish Cypriots on the island remained mainly constant. The number of Turkish Cypriots in 1974 was 118,000.

On July 15, 1974, EOKA-B took power in Cyprus with a military coup backed by the Greek junta; Turkey used this as a pretext for intervention to secure the welfare of Turkish Cypriot population and subsequently occupied the north of the island. In this process, there have been expulsion of populations from both Greek and Turkish sides. According to Turkish-Cypriot newspapers, over one third of Turkish Cypriots emigrated from the occupied area between 1974-1995 because of the economic and social deprivation, mainly a result of the ongoing international embargo on the TRNC. On the contrary, some Turkish settlers from Anatolia moved to the island, whose number reached around 115.000 (2001 figures), which is in fact a violation to the Geneva Conventions Protocol of 1977 since the Turkish occupation has been declared illegal by the UN. As a result the Turkish Cypriots who remain are today outnumbered by the Turkish security forces together with the settlers.^{[citation needed]} July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston, in English National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters) was a Greek Cypriot nationalist organisation that fought for the expulsion of United Kingdom troops from the island, for self-determination and for union with Greece in the mid to late 1950s. ... The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus(TRNC) {NOTE: the name is not accepted by UN} , in Turkish Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, is a self-proclaimed state occupying the northern third of the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. ... Development of the Geneva Conventions from 1864 to 1949. ...

Famous Turkish Cypriots

chronological order of birthdates

• Kıbrıslı Mehmet Emin Pasha - 3-times Ottoman grand vizier in mid-19th century
• Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha- 5-times Ottoman grand-vizier in late-19th and early-20th century
• Alparslan Türkeş - leading Turkish politician
• Fazıl Küçük - leading politician during the period of the Republic of Cyprus
• Mehmet Nazım Adil - Sufi religious leader
• Rauf Denktaş - founder of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Vamik Volkan - psychoanalyst and author
• Asil Nadir - international businessman of the seventies and eighties
• Mehmet Ali Talat - President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Only recognised by Turkey)
• Mustafa Halilsoy - prominent physicist in the field of Physics of Gravitational Waves
• Ulus Baker - sociologist
• Fatima Whitbread - javeline thrower
• Sümer Erek - painter
• Acar Akalın - guitarist/composer
• Hüseyin Çakmak - cartoonist/journalist
• Hüseyin Çağlayan - top fashion designer
• Okan Ersan - guitarist
• Mustafa Izzet - football player
• Ziynet Sali - singer
• Metin Huseyin - film director
• Erkhan Murad - baller
• Alp Haydar - British actor
• Tamer Hassan - famous actor
• Kemal Shahin - British Big Brother 6 contestant
• Sezer Yurtseven - British Big Brother 7 contestant
• Sezai Türkeş - businessman in Turkey, founder of STFA construction company
• Haldun Dormen - Artist living in Istanbul
• Zeki Alasya - Artist living in Istanbul
• Nil Burak - Pop music singer
• Işın Karaca - Pop music singer
• Danny Mertsoy-Proffessional Young actor Played Ishmael in the film The ABRAHAM,also played in various roles in BBC like East enders.
• Mehmet Zeka- Barrister-at-law , Judge . Represented Cyprus at European Human Rights Court Birth 1903 died 1984

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Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha (Mehmed Kamil Pasha the Cypriot), also spelled as Kâmil Pasha or Kiamil Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of Turkish Cypriot origin in the late 19th century and early 20th century, who became, as aside regional or international posts within the Ottoman state structure... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Alparslan TürkeÅŸ (1917 in Nicosia, Cyprus - April 5, 1997 in Ankara, Turkey) was a Turkish extremist and politician. ... Dr Fazıl Küçük, Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus (1959-1963) Dr Fazıl Küçük (1906-1984) was the first and only Turkish Cypriot Vice President of the 1960 Republic of Cyprus. ... Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani al-Qubrisi in the early 1990s Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi (Arabic: الشيخ ناظم القبرصي) (born Mehmet Nazim Adil, April 23, 1922 - ), master and spiritual guide of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, was born in the town of Larnaca on the island of Cyprus, hence the title “Qubrusi” or “Cypriot. ... Sufism (Arabic تصوف taṣawwuf) is a system of esoteric philosophy commonly associated with Islam. ... Rauf DenktaÅŸ Rauf Raif DenktaÅŸ (in English often spelled Rauf Denktash) (born January 27, 1924) is the founder of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a defacto state which is only recognized by Turkey. ... Anthem: Ä°stiklâl Marşı  (Turkish) Independence March Capital LefkoÅŸa (Nicosia) Turkish Government Representative democratic republic[1]  - President Mehmet Ali Talat  - Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer Sovereignty from Republic of Cyprus (de facto)   - Proclaimed November 15, 1983   - Recognition Only by Turkey and OIC  Area  - Total 3,355 km² (not ranked... Born in 1932 in Nicosia, Cyprus, Vamık D. Volkan, M.D., is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. ... Asil Nadir was born in Cyprus on May 1, 1941. ... This article deals with the cultural and social aspects and trends of the 1970s. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Computers, technology Bulletin board system popularity Popularization of personal computers, Walkmans, VHS videocassette recorders, and compact disc (CD) players Home video games become enormously popular, most notably Atari until the market crashes in 1983; the rise of Nintendo brings about... Mehmet Ali Talat Mehmet Ali Talat (born July 6, 1952) is the current President of the de factoTurkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which controls the northern third of the island of Cyprus and is unrecognized by any nation except Turkey. ... Anthem: Ä°stiklâl Marşı  (Turkish) Independence March Capital LefkoÅŸa (Nicosia) Turkish Government Representative democratic republic[1]  - President Mehmet Ali Talat  - Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer Sovereignty from Republic of Cyprus (de facto)   - Proclaimed November 15, 1983   - Recognition Only by Turkey and OIC  Area  - Total 3,355 km² (not ranked... (Born February 25, 1949, Ayios Nicholoas (Paphos) - Cyprus) Professor Mustafa Halilsoy is a prominent Turkish Cypriot theoretical physicist, and received his PhD degree in physics from Middle East Technical University specializing in gravitational physics. ... Ulus Baker (1960 in Leningrad, USSR - ) is a Turkish Cypriot sociologist. ... Fatima Whitbread is a Turkish Cypriot originated British ex-athlete, a javelin thrower who won the World Championship in 1987. ... Acar Akalin is a Cypriot singer, guitarist and composer. ... Hüseyin Çakmak (born in 1964 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is a cartoonist and journalist. ... Hussein Chalayan (Hüseyin ÇaÄŸlayan) Hussein Chalayan (or, in keeping with the original spelling of his name, Hüseyin ÇaÄŸlayan) is a British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer. ... Guitarist, Composer and Recording Artist-- YAMAHA EU Artist-- Born in 1972 in Cyprus. ... Mustafa Izzet, playing for Birmingham City Mustafa Izzet (Muzzy Izzet) (born Mustafa Ä°zzet; October 31, 1974 in Mile End, London) is a former British-Turkish footballer who played for Chelsea, Leicester City, Birmingham City and the Turkish national team At the age of 19, Mustafa legally changed his name from... Ziynet Sali Ziynet Sali is a Turkish Cypriot singer who has recently produced and became famous in Turkey through songs with lyrics in Turkish and Greek. ... Alphan Haydar (born 1982 in London) or principally known as Alp Haydar is a British actor of Turkish Cypriot origin, who is best known for his roles as Darius in Girls In Love and as Peri in the Mysti Show. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Following is a list of the 22 housemates that participated in the seventh series of Big Brother UK, in alphabetical order. ... 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Bibliographical orientation

• Baybars, Taner, Plucked in a far-off land, London: Victor Gollancz, 1970.
• Beckingham, C. F., The Cypriot Turks, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol. 43, pp. 126-30, 1956.
• Beckingham, C. F., The Turks of Cyprus, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. vol 87(II), pp. 165-74. July-Dec. 1957.
• Beckingham, C. F., Islam and Turkish nationalism in Cyprus, Die Welt des Islam, NS, Vol 5, 65-83, 1957.
• Committee on Turkish Affairs, An investigation into matters concerning and affecting the Turkish community in Cyprus: Interim report, Nicosia: Government Printing Office, 1949.
• Dandini, Jerome. Voyage du Mont Liban / traduit de l'Italien du R. P. Jerome Dandini ... Ou il est traité tant de la créance ... des Maronites, que des plusieurs particularitez touchant les Turcs ... avec des remarques sur la theologie des chrétiens & ... des mahometans. Par R. S. P.
• Jennings, Ronald C. , Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571-1640, New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilization-Number XVIII, New York University Press, New York and London, 1993-Acknowledgments ix-xi + 428 pp.
• Oakley, Robin, The Turkish peoples of Cyprus, in Margaret Bainbridge, ed, The Turkic peoples of the world. (pp. 85-117), New York: Kegan Paul, 1993

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See also

• Cyprus
• Greek Cypriots
• Cypriot refugees
• List of Cypriots

Greek Cypriot refers to the Greek-speaking population of Cyprus. ... Cypriot Refugees Page It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Civilian casualties and displacements during the Cyprus conflict. ... The following is a list of prominent Cypriots // Historical figures Zeno of Citium (333 BC-264 BC), philosopher Barnabas (1st century), Apostolic Father, early missionary Sergius Paulus (1st century), proconsul of Cyprus Political figures Dimitris Christofias, president of the House of Representatives (Cypriot Parliament) George Grivas,head of EOKA Glafkos...

References

Links

• Oral histories of Turkish Cypriots in Britain