Turks in Mexico

Ethnic group in Mexico
Ethnic group
Turks in Mexico
Reloj otomano, a gift from the Ottoman community in Mexico to commemorate the centennial of Mexican Independence
Total population
461 Turkey-born residents (2019)[1]
Unknown number of Mexicans of Turkish descent
Regions with significant populations
Mexico City
Languages
Spanish (Mexican Spanish), Turkish
Religion
Predominantly Islam[2] and Judaism[3]
Related ethnic groups
Turkish diaspora
Part of a series of articles on
Turkish people
Population
Traditional Areas of Turkish Settlement

Turkish majorities:

  • Turkey
  • Northern Cyprus
  • Turkish minorities in the Balkans:
  • Turkish minorities in the Caucasus:
  • Turkish minorities in the Levant:
  • Turkish minorities in North Africa:
  • Other Turkish minorities:


  • Turkish diasporas in the Americas:
  • Turkish diasporas in Central Asia:
  • Turkish diasporas in Oceania:
  • Other Turkish diasporas:
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Turks in Mexico (Turkish: Meksika Türkleri, Spanish: turcos mexicanos) comprise Turkish people living in Mexico and their Mexico-born descendants. The Turkish community is largely made up of immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, born in the Ottoman Empire before 1923, in the Republic of Turkey since then or in neighbouring countries once part of the Ottoman Empire that still have some Turkish population. [citation needed]

History

According to census records, "Turks" have been present in Mexico since at least 1895 with 453 individuals recorded.[4] However, most of the emigres from the Ottoman Empire were not ethnic Turks. Since they traveled with passports issued by Turkish authorities, it led to a misunderstanding in Latin America of identifying Arab immigrants as "turcos" (Turks).[5] Most of the Ottoman immigrants were Lebanese Christians, with smaller populations of Syrians and Jews.[citation needed]

Institutions

  • Casa Turca Ciudad de México (2003) and Casa Turca Guadalajara (2015)

See also

  • flagTurkey portal
  • flagMexico portal

Further reading

  • Alfaro-Velcamp, Theresa, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico, University of Texas Press, 2009

References

  1. ^ "International Migration Database". OECD. Retrieved 21 January 2021. Country of birth/nationality: Turkey, Variable: Stock of foreign population by nationality
  2. ^ "Ofrecen un fragmento de Turquía en Guadalajara". Grupo Milenio. Retrieved 8 March 2016. En cuanto a la religión, la mayoría practica el Islam...
  3. ^ "Dimensión Antropológica". Grupo Milenio. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Estadísticas Históricas de México" (PDF). National Institute of Statistics and Geography. p. 83. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Los sirio-libaneses". Semana.com (in Spanish). 28 October 2006. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
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Traditional areas of
Turkish settlement
Turkish majorities:
Turkish minorities
in the Balkans:
Turkish minorities
in the Caucasus:
Turkish minorities
in the Levant:
Turkish minorities
in North Africa:
Other regions
Diaspora in Africa
Diaspora in Europe
Diaspora in North America
Diaspora in the Persian Gulf
Diaspora in Oceania
Diaspora in South America
Diaspora in South Asia
Diaspora in East Asia
Diaspora in Post-Soviet States
Turkophobia
See also
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Non-Amerindian
Mexico
From Sub-Saharan Africa
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From the Americas
From South and East Asia
From Europe
From Western Asia
and North Africa
Amerindian
More than 100,000 people
20,000–100,000 people
1,000–20,000 people
Fewer than 1,000 people
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1 Jews and Romani originate in the Middle East and South Asia respectively, with most arriving to Mexico via Europe · 2 Primarily arrived via Canada · 3 Originated in what is now the United States