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Armenians in Turkey

Armenians in Turkey, (Turkish: Türkiye Ermenileri; Armenian: Հայերը Թուրքիայում) are ethnic Armenians living Turkey and one of the indigenous peoples of Turkey, have an estimated population of 50,000–70,000[1]

Armenians in Turkey
Türkiye Ermenileri
Հայերը Թուրքիայում
Mother language in 1965 Turkey census - Armenian.png
Distribution of Armenian speakers in Turkey according mother tongue, census in 1965
Total population
50,000[2]
Islamized and Crypto Armenians
2,000,000–5,000,000[3][4] (Hamshenis: 150,000[5])
Regions with significant populations
Istanbul, Hatay, Rize, Artvin, Düzce, Sakarya (etc.)
Languages
Turkish (majority), Armenian (minority)
Religion
Armenian Apostolic, Sunni Islam

Notable people

  • Mimar Sinan (1488/1490–1588), Ottoman architect of probably[6][7][8][9][10] or maybe[11][12] Armenian origin
  • Balyan family[13]
    • Senekerim Balyan (1768–1833)
    • Garabet Amira Balyan (1800–1866)
    • Nigoğayos Balyan (1826–1858)
    • Sarkis Balyan (1835–1899)
    • Krikor Balyan (1764–1831)
    • Hagop Balyan (1838–1875)
    • Simon Balyan (1848–1894)
    • Levon Balyan (1855–1925)
  • Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha (1813–1868), Ottoman grand vizier of Hemshin Armenian origin
  • Abraham Pasha (1833–1918), Ottoman Armenian diplomat
  • Hagop Kazazian Pasha (1836–1891), was a high-ranking Ottoman Armenian official
  • Vartan Pasha (1813–1879), was an Ottoman Armenian statesman, author, and journalist
  • Daron Acemoglu[14] (born 1967), economist
  • Garo Paylan (born 1972), politican
  • Rober Hatemo (born 1974), singer
  • Şahan Arzruni (born 1943), pianist
  • Hayko Cepkin (born 1978), musician
  • Jaklin Çarkçı (born 1958), mezzo-soprano
  • Masis Aram Gözbek (born 1987), conductor of Bosphorus Jazz Choir
  • Ara Güler (1928–2018), photojournalist
  • Sami Hazinses (1925–2002), actor
  • Anı İpekkaya (born 1939), actress
  • Sirvart Kalpakian Karamanuk (1912–2008), composer
  • Cem Karaca (1945–2004), rock musician (Armenian mother)
  • Toto Karaca (1912–1992), actress
  • Ferdi Özbeğen (1941-2013), musician (Armenian mother)
  • Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901–1978), oud player
  • Yaşar Kurt (born 1968), rock artist
  • Adile Naşit (1930–1987), actress (Armenian mother)
  • Selim Naşit Özcan (1928–2000), actor (Armenian mother)
  • Kenan Pars (1920–2008), actor
  • Ruhi Su (1912–1985), folk musician
  • Anta Toros (born 1948), actress
  • Onno Tunç (1948–1996), musician
  • Arat Dink (born 1979), son of Hrant Dink, editor of Agos
  • Hrant Dink (1954–2007), former editor of the weekly Agos
  • Vartan İhmailan (1913–1987), writer
  • Hrand Nazariantz (1880–1962), journalist and poet
  • Sevan Nishanyan (born 1956), writer and linguist

References

  1. ↑ Turay, Anna. "Tarihte Ermeniler". Bolsohays: Istanbul Armenians. Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
  2. ↑ Lowen, Mark (2015). "Armenian tragedy still raw in Turkey 100 years on". BBC News. "From a pre-war Armenian population of two million, just 50,000 remain in Turkey today."
  3. ↑ Danielyan, Diana (2011). ""Azg": Is the awakening of Islamized Armenians in Turkey possible?". Hayern Aysor. "Dagch says according to different calculations, there are 3-5 million Islamized Armenians in Turkey and that the Foundation’s most important mission is to awaken them."
  4. ↑ Khanlaryan, Karen (2005). "The Armenian ethnoreligious elements in the Western Armenia". Noravank Foundation. "Thus, we can come to the conclusions that in the geographical areal of our research the number of “Anatolian” “Official” Armenians is insignificant, less then 5.000, the number of “Islamized” Armenians excels the number of one million and reaches 1.300.000 and “Crypto” Armenians are more then 700.000."
  5. ↑ Goble, Paul (2017). "Islamicized Armenians in Turkey: A Bridge or a Threat?". The Jamestown Foundation. "One such group is the Hemshins of Turkey, a community of approximately 150,000 people who have Armenian backgrounds, often speak Armenian, but have become Islamicized."
  6. ↑ Danforth 2021, p. 125.
  7. ↑ Muller 1958, p. 305.
  8. ↑ Chisholm 1910, p. 426.
  9. ↑ Ralph 2005, p. 82.
  10. ↑ Dadoyan 2017, p. 53.
  11. ↑ Jackson 1913, p. 143.
  12. ↑ Sitwell 1938, p. 74.
  13. ↑ Robinson 1996, p. 286.
  14. ↑ Sorman 2013, p. 31.

Sources

  • Gellman, Mneesha (2016). Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador. Routledge. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-317-35831-2. Today, there are roughly 60,000 Armenian citizens of Turkey living in Istanbul (...)
  • Dadoyan, Seta B. (2017). The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World and Diverging Paradigmscase of Cilicia Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries. p. 53. One such case is that of the Ottoman imperial architect Sinan, an Armenian from Caesarea (...)
  • Ralph, Peters (2005). Beyond Baghdad. p. 82. Sinan, born an Armenian Christian.
  • Jackson, Thomas Graham (1913). Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture, Volume 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 143. They are many of them designed by Sinan, who is said to have been an Armenian.
  • Muller, Herbert (1958). The Loom of History. pp. 305. Although Turks today bridle at the suggestion, Sinan was probably an Armenian.
  • Danforth, Nicholas (2021). The Remaking of Republican Turkey. Cambridge University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-108-83324-0. Mimar Sinan's Armenian ancestry can now serve as evidence of Ottoman pluralism.
  • Chisholm, Hugh (1910). The Encyclopaedia Britannica; A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. Encyclopaedia Britannica. pp. 426. Sinan, an Armenian architect.
  • Sorman, Guy (2013). Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis. Encounter Books. p. 31. ISBN 978-1594032547. (...) Daron Acemoğlu, an Armenian from Turkey (...)
  • Ersoy, Erkan Gürsel (2007). Ethnic identity, beliefs and yayla festivals in Çamlıhemşin. in The Hemshin. p. 320.
  • Agadjanian, Alexander (2016). Armenian Christianity Today: Identity Politics and Popular Practice. Routledge. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-317-17857-6. Exact numbers of Armenian in Istanbul vary by source; there are probably around 60,000 or 70,000.
  • Sitwell, Sacheverell (1939). Old Fashioned Flowers. Country Life. p. 74. The architect Sinan, perhaps of Armenian descent, raised mosques and other buildings all over the Turkish Empire.
  • Robinson, Francis (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World. Cambridge University Press. p. 286. In Istanbul they were propagated in buildings designed for the Ottoman sultans by the Armenian Balyan family of architects (...)
  • Goble, Paul (2017). "Islamicized Armenians in Turkey: A Bridge or a Threat?". Jamestown Foundation. One such group is the Hemshins of Turkey, a community of approximately 150,000 people who have Armenian backgrounds, often speak Armenian, but have become Islamicized.
  • Cheterian, Vicken (2015). Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide. Oxford University Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-19-026350-8. This village, the sole remaining Armenian village in Turkey, has only 130 inhabitants.

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