Anti-Turkish sentiment
Anti-Turkism or Turkophobia is a term of being fearful, racist and discriminative against Turkish people or Turkic countries.
The term refers to intolerance against the Turks across all regions but also against Turkic groups as a whole, including Azerbaijanis, Crimean Tatars and Turkmens. It is also applied on groups who developed in part under the influence of Turkish culture and traditions while they converted to Islam, especially during Ottoman times, such as Albanians, Bosniaks and other smaller ethnic groups around the Balkans during the period of Ottoman rule. It can also refer to racism against Turkish people living outside of Turkiye, who form the Turkish diaspora.
The main historical adversaries of Turkic peoples are considered to be Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, and Serbs. The main reasons for the historical conflicts lie in the annexation of their ancestral lands by Turkish conquests.[1]
The roots of anti-Turkism can be traced back to the arrival of the Huns in Europe. While the ethnic background of the Huns is a matter of dispute among historians, they are widely believed to have been of Turkic origin, and their invasion inspired fear among Europeans. In the Late Middle Ages, the fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman wars in Europe caused European Christians’ efforts to stem the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor to Turkiye, which helped fuel the development of anti-Turkism.[2]
Anti-Turkish Sentiment Media
Original prints from the 16th century at the Hungarian National Museum depict a Turkish warrior butchering infants.
Turks protesting in Amsterdam, the banner reads: 'Kirkuk is an Iraqi city with Turkmen characteristics'.
Iraqi Turkmen woman holding a placard written in Turkish: Kerkük'ü hiçbir güç Kürtleştiremez ("No power can Kurdify Kirkuk").
The Bulgarian Martyresses, by Konstantin Makovsky (1877). A painting from the April Uprising, it sparked outrage in the West against Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria.
The Solingen arson attack of 1993, in which neo-Nazis set fire to a Turkish family's home, was one of the most severe instances of xenophobic violence in modern Germany.
A World War I Russian propaganda poster depicting a Turk running away from a Russian
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References
- ↑ What about anti-Turkism in the West?. Daily Sabah (12 August 2016).[dead link]
- ↑ Turkophobia - ECPS (in en-US). Retrieved 2021-11-15.