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*[[Batuhan Piatti]], celebrity chef and billionaire (Turkish father and Italian mother)<ref>{{cite web|last=Maaty|first=Dina|year=2021|url=https://www.hotelnewsme.com/news/billionaire-dubais-chef-extraordinaire-meet-batuhan-piatti/|title=Billionaire Dubai’s Chef Extraordinaire: Meet Batuhan Piatti|quote= I grew up both in Istanbul and in Milan as the son of a Turkish father and an Italian mother.|access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref>
*[[Batuhan Piatti]], celebrity chef and billionaire (Turkish father and Italian mother)<ref>{{cite web|last=Maaty|first=Dina|year=2021|url=https://www.hotelnewsme.com/news/billionaire-dubais-chef-extraordinaire-meet-batuhan-piatti/|title=Billionaire Dubai’s Chef Extraordinaire: Meet Batuhan Piatti|quote= I grew up both in Istanbul and in Milan as the son of a Turkish father and an Italian mother.|access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref>
*[[Hugo Pratt]], (1927–1995), comic book creator
*{{Interlanguage link|Yasemin Sannino|it|Yasemin Sannino}}, singer and actress (Turkish mother and Italian father)
*{{Interlanguage link|Yasemin Sannino|it|Yasemin Sannino}}, singer and actress (Turkish mother and Italian father)
*[[Yvonne Sanson]], actress (Turkish mother and French-Russian father)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.film.it/film/attori/p/yvonne-sanson/|title=YVONNE SANSON|quote=Nata a Salonicco in Grecia, Yvonne Sanson arriva in Italia ancora giovanissima e si fÀ subito notare per la sua bellezza altera. Padre franco/russo e madre turca.|publisher=Film.it|access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|year=2003|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2003/07/24/addio-yvonne-sanson-quanti-pianti-con-nazzari.html|title=Addio a Yvonne Sanson quanti pianti con Nazzari|quote=Nata a Salonicco nel ' 25, madre turca e padre francese d' origine russa, la Sanson aveva una bellezza bruna e rigogliosa.|publisher=La Repubblica|access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref>
*[[Yvonne Sanson]], actress (Turkish mother and French-Russian father)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.film.it/film/attori/p/yvonne-sanson/|title=YVONNE SANSON|quote=Nata a Salonicco in Grecia, Yvonne Sanson arriva in Italia ancora giovanissima e si fÀ subito notare per la sua bellezza altera. Padre franco/russo e madre turca.|publisher=Film.it|access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|year=2003|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2003/07/24/addio-yvonne-sanson-quanti-pianti-con-nazzari.html|title=Addio a Yvonne Sanson quanti pianti con Nazzari|quote=Nata a Salonicco nel ' 25, madre turca e padre francese d' origine russa, la Sanson aveva una bellezza bruna e rigogliosa.|publisher=La Repubblica|access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref>

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Turks in Italy
Total population
Estimates vary because official Italian statistics do not collect data on ethnicity.
30,000 to 40,000 (2009 academic estimate)[1]
  • Turkish citizens: 50,000 (2020 estimate)[2]
    Turkish minority of Moena: unknown
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Religion

Turks in Italy, also referred to as Turkish Italians or Italian Turks, (Template:Lang-tr) are Italian citizens of Turkish origin. Although some Turks came to Italy as Ottoman migrants, the majority of Italian Turks descend from the Republic of Turkey; moreover, there has also been Turkish migration from other post-Ottoman countries including ethnic Turkish communities that have moved to Italy from the Balkans (e.g. from Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Romania), the island of Cyprus, North Africa (especially from Egypt and Tunisia) and, more recently, Iraq and Syria.

History

See also: Ottoman invasion of Otranto

Ottoman migration

Map of Otranto by Piri Reis.
Fondaco dei Turchi, The Turks' Inn.

During the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire was expanding mightily in southeastern Europe. It completed the invasion and occupation of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 under Sultan Mehmet II by conquering Constantinople and Galata. It seized Genoa's last bastions in the Black Sea in 1475 and Venice's Greek colony of Euboea in 1479. Turkish troops invaded the Friuli region in northeastern Italy in 1479 and again in 1499–1503. The Apulian harbor town of Otranto, located about 100 kilometers southeast of Brindisi, was seized in 1480, but the Turks were routed there in 1481 when Mehmet died and a war for his succession broke out. Cem Sultan, pretender to the Ottoman throne, was defeated despite being supported by the pope; he fled with his family to the Kingdom of Naples, where his male descendants were bestowed with the title of Principe de Sayd by the Pope in 1492. They lived in Naples until the 17th century and in Sicily until 1668 before relocating to Malta (Turkic Italian: Итољйон Тұрклори).

From the early 17th century through to 1838, the Fondaco dei Turchi served as a one-building-ghetto for Venice's Ottoman Turkish population (thus "dei Turchi"). The fondaco then served as a combination home, warehouse, and market for the Turkish traders. When the Venetian Republic was conquered and abolished by Napoleon Boneparte in 1797, the Turkish traders continued to live in the palazzo until 1838.

Turks of Moena

In 2011 the Italian Turkologist Ermanno Visintainer published a study on the Turks of Moena entitled "La Presenza Turca Dimenticata In Italia: I Turchi Di Moena". He has argued that the descendants of Ottoman Turks who settled in the region during the seventeenth century have been "forgotten" in Italy.[3] Nonetheless, Moena is often referred to as "Rione della Turchia" (The Turkish Region),[4] owing to a legendary Ottoman soldier who arrived in the town during the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Known as Hasan or Il Turco, he was declared a hero by the locals for revolting against the unfair taxes of the Duchy of Augsburg. He married a local woman and had several children.[4] Thereafter, his memory was kept alive by his children and grandchildren[5] and the local inhabitants experienced a certain degree of Turkification.[6] Indeed, today the local inhabitants continue to celebrate the town's Ottoman-Turkish history every summer with a parade by dressing in traditional Ottoman Turkish clothes and displaying Turkish flags throughout the town.[6]

Demographics

According to the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica there were 19,068 people from Turkey living in Italy in 2010.[7] However, in 2009 Dr. Yasemin Çakırer estimated that there was 30,000 to 40,000 people of Turkish origin living in Italy.[1] The majority of Turks live in the North-West and North-East of Italy, particularly in Rome, Milan and Venice.[8]

Notable people

Further information: Category:Italian people of Turkish descent

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Çakırer 2009, 763.
  2. ^ Seçkin, Barış (2020), İtalya'daki Türk vatandaşları Kovid-19 nedeniyle kayıp vermedi, Anadolu Agency, retrieved 2 November 2020, İtalya'da yaşayan 50 bin kadar Türk vatandaşının
  3. ^ Visintainer 2011, 16-20.
  4. ^ a b Visintainer 2011, 18.
  5. ^ Daily Sabah. "Moena: A hidden Turkish town in the foothills of the Alps". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  6. ^ a b Visintainer 2011, 19.
  7. ^ Statistiche Demografiche ISTAT. "Resident Population by sex and citizenship (Middle-East Europe)". Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  8. ^ Çakırer 2009, 766.
  9. ^ Marsh, Jan (2001), 'All woman and half a man', The Guardian, retrieved 28 April 2021, Born in Trieste in 1921, Fiore de Henriquez is paternally descended from Spanish noblemen at the Habsburg court in Vienna, her grandfather and great-uncles being vice-admirals in the Austro-Hungarian navy, while her mother was of Turkish and Russian origin.
  10. ^ Sanna, Cristiano (2019). "[Il ritratto] Afef, le quarte nozze, i milioni e quei veleni da scansare. Il potere riservato di una ribelle". Tiscali Spettacoli. Retrieved 26 September 2019. Lei, figlia del ministro plenipotenziario dei rapporti tra Tunisia e Libia, Mohamed Jnifen, e di Saida Benina, madre di origine turca
  11. ^ Maaty, Dina (2021). "Billionaire Dubai's Chef Extraordinaire: Meet Batuhan Piatti". Retrieved 12 February 2021. I grew up both in Istanbul and in Milan as the son of a Turkish father and an Italian mother.
  12. ^ "YVONNE SANSON". Film.it. Retrieved 12 February 2021. Nata a Salonicco in Grecia, Yvonne Sanson arriva in Italia ancora giovanissima e si fÀ subito notare per la sua bellezza altera. Padre franco/russo e madre turca.
  13. ^ "Addio a Yvonne Sanson quanti pianti con Nazzari". La Repubblica. 2003. Retrieved 12 February 2021. Nata a Salonicco nel ' 25, madre turca e padre francese d' origine russa, la Sanson aveva una bellezza bruna e rigogliosa.

Bibliography

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