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Ethnic group in Switzerland
Ethnic group
Turks in Switzerland
(
Turkish
:
?svicre'deki Turkler
), also referred to as
Swiss Turks
(
Turkish
:
?svicreli Turkler
) and
Turkish Swiss people
(
Turkish
:
Turk ?svicreliler
), are
Swiss
residents of
Turkish
origin. The majority of Swiss Turks descend from the
Republic of Turkey
; however there has also been Turkish migration waves from other post-
Ottoman
countries including ethnic
Turkish communities
which have come to Switzerland from the
Balkans
(e.g. from
Bulgaria
,
Greece
,
Kosovo
,
North Macedonia
and
Romania
), the island of
Cyprus
, and more recently
Iraq
and
Syria
.
Culture
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Religion
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The majority of the Turkish community in Switzerland adhere to
Islam
. However, their religious organisations differ from those of other Muslim communities in the country. The Turks are divided by ideological and political divisions of their home country. When in the 1970s the Islamic movement
Milli Goru?
was established in Germany for the
German Turkish community
, some of the Turks in Switzerland joined this organisation. But the activities of the
Diyanet ??leri Turk ?slam Birli?i
, the Turkish directorate of religious affairs that sends
Imams
to the
Turkish diaspora
, attracted other Turks to adhere to this state-controlled form of Islam. Turkish groups such as the Sufi Suleymancilar and the Nurcu confraternity also play a role in the Turkish Muslim community in Switzerland. These are exact Gulen Movement people, different from the current Turkey's Government, after the 15 July Turkey's coup d'etat attempt purges.
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Discrimination
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On 17 March 2021 supporters of the
PKK
group attacked the home of ?eref Yıldız, the head of the Swiss Turkish Society (ITT), for the fifth time in two years, forcing him to move to another residence to protect his children.
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By 29 April 2021, a bomb ready to explode was found in the mailbox of the headquarters of the Swiss Turkish Society (ITT), which serves as the umbrella group of Turkish nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the
Rumlang
region.
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Police evacuated the entrance and exit of the town. It was suspected that the
PKK
group were behind the attack because, for several months, there had been attacks by PKK supporters against the headquarters and institutions belonging to the Turkish community in Switzerland.
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Notable people
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-
Gulsha Adilji
, TV presenter
-
Erkan Aki
, opera singer and pop musician
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Professor
Hatice Altug
, physicist
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Dany Bahar
, business executive
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Fernando Corena
, opera singer
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Eray Comert
, football player
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Suna Gurler
[
de
]
, actress
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Guzin Kar
[
de
]
, film director
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Gokhan Inler
, football player
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Enes Kanter
, basketball player
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Professor
Murat Kunt
, scientist
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Baran bo Odar
, film director
-
OZ
, record producer and songwriter
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Attila Vural
[
de
]
, guitarist
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Hakan Yakin
, football player
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Murat Yakin
, football player
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Semih Yavsaner
[
de
]
, comedian and entertainer
See also
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References
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- ^
Schweizer Nein konnte Europa-Skeptiker starken
,
Der Tagesspiegel
, 2009
, retrieved
26 May
2021
,
Dabei erwarten Vertreter der rund 120.000 Turken in der Schweiz nach dem Referendum keine gravierenden Anderungen in ihrem Alltag.
- ^
Haddad 2002
, 74.
- ^
a
b
c
Bomb found in Swiss Turkish Society headquarters in Switzerland
,
Middle East Monitor
, 2021
, retrieved
21 May
2021
- ^
Switzerland: PKK backers target head of Turkish society
,
Anadolu Agency
, 2021
, retrieved
21 May
2021
Bibliography
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- Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck (2002).
Muslims in the West: from sojourners to citizens
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-514805-3
.
.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2008).
International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI 2008
. OECD Publishing.
ISBN
92-64-04565-1
.
.
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Traditional areas of
Turkish
settlement
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Turkish minorities
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Turkish minorities
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Turkish minorities
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Diaspora in Africa
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Diaspora in
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Diaspora in North America
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Diaspora in the Persian Gulf
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Diaspora in Oceania
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Diaspora in South America
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Diaspora in South Asia
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Diaspora in East Asia
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Diaspora in Post-Soviet States
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Turkophobia
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