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List of Turkish Canadians

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The following is a list of Turkish Canadians, including both original immigrants of full or partial Turkish descent who obtained Canadian citizenship and their Canadian descendants.

Most notable Turkish Canadians have come from, or originate from, Turkey but there are also notable Canadians of Turkish origin who have immigrated from, or descend from, the other former Ottoman territories, especially Turks from the Balkans (e.g. Mesut Mert has a Turkish-Bulgarian background), the island of Cyprus (e.g. Ozay Mehmet and Anna Silk have a Turkish Cypriot background), the Levant, and North Africa (e.g. Nihal Mazloum, has a Turkish-Egyptian).

Some notable Turkish Canadians have also come to Canada from areas where there is a modern Turkish diaspora; for example, Viola Yanik has a Turkish-German background.

Academia

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Arts and literature

  • Derya Akay, artist
  • Üstün Bilgen-Reinart, writer
  • Alkan Chaglar, journalist (Turkish Cyptiot origin)
  • Pinar Demirdag, multidisciplinary artist
  • Rima Elkouri, journalist and novelist
  • Aline Gubbay, photographer, art historian and writer (Turkish mother){{citation|last=|first=|year=2005|title=Aline Gubbay: Historian Of Montreal Dies|url=https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/17398|quote=A silk merchant's daughter, Alice Helfer was born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920. Her mother was Turkish, her father, a Russian Jew from Georgia.|publisher=History News Network|access-date=12 April 2021}}{{citation|last=|first=|year=|title=Publications about Westmount, A View of Their Own: The Story of Westmount|url=https://westmount.org/en/the-city/publications/#1438870606733-4adc562a-96a4|quote=A silk merchant’s daughter, Aline Gubbay was born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920. Her mother was Turkish, her father, a Jew from Georgia (formerly part of the Soviet Union). She and her family moved to England when she was 4... In 1948, she met and married Eric Gubbay, a cardiologist originally from Calcutta, and they emigrated to Winnipeg. |publisher=|access-date=12 April 2021}}
  • Timothy Guy Kent, painter (Turkish father)
  • Nil Köksal, journalist
  • Nihal Mazloum, artist (Turkish-Egyptian origin){{citation|year=2000|title=Nihal Mazloum|url=http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cultur/cespays/pay2_14e.shtml|publisher=Canadian Museum of History|access-date=20 September 2017|quote=Of Turkish-Egyptian ancestry, Nihal Mazloum was born in Paris in 1951 and grew up in Cairo, in an affluent and multilingual family. After receiving a Bachelor's degree in anthropology from Cairo's American University, she left Egypt to study ethnology in Paris. She remained there for seven years and then immigrated to Canada in 1978. She lives in Montreal.}}
  • Robert Paul Weston, children's author (Turkish British father){{citation|last=Stewart|first=Heather Grace|year=2009|title=A first novel in rhyming couplets?|url=https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/alumnireview/stories/first-novel-rhyming-couplets|publisher=Queen's University at Kingston|quote=Born in Dover, England, in 1975 to a British-Turkish father and an Indian-Grenadian mother, Robert spent most of his childhood in Georgetown, Ontario.|access-date=16 April 2021}}

==Cinema and television==

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  • Ennis Esmer, actor{{cite web|author=CTV|title=Travelling to Turkey the ideal summer vacation for 'The Listener's' Ennis Esmer|url=http://www.ctv.ca/TheListener/article/Travelling-to-Turkey-would-be-ideal-summer-vacation-for-The-Listeners-Ennis-Esmer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815022916/http://www.ctv.ca/TheListener/article/Travelling-to-Turkey-would-be-ideal-summer-vacation-for-The-Listeners-Ennis-Esmer|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 15, 2012|access-date=2012-09-06}}
  • Onur Karaman, film director
  • Arda Ocal, TV and radio broadcaster
  • Anna Silk, actress (British-Turkish Cypriot mother)
  • Ilkay Silk, {{post-nominals|CC}}, actress, playwright, producer, and educator (Turkish Cypriot origin){{citation|year=|title=Silk, Ilkay|url=https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Silk%2C%20Ilkay|publisher=Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia|access-date=7 March 2021}}

Fashion

  • Erdem Moralioğlu, fashion designer (Turkish father){{cite news |author=The Independent|title=Star in the making: Designer Erdem Moralioglu|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/star-in-the-making-designer-erdem-moralioglu-930495.html|access-date=2011-02-27|location=London|date=2008-09-15}}

==Music==

  • Ozan Boz, musician and producer
  • Mercan Dede, composer, ney and bendir player, DJ and producer{{cite web|year=2007|title=Mercan Dede ile kutlama|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/mercan-dede-ile-kutlama-6097041|publisher=Hürriyet|quote=...son olarak Türk asıllı Kanadalı sanatçı Mercan Dede sahne alacak. |access-date=4 January 2021}}
  • Orhan Demir, jazz musician
  • Minor Empire, Turkish-Canadian progressive music group
  • Kaan Güneşberk, musician, songwriter, and composer
  • Evren Ozdemir, rapper{{cite web|author=MSN News|title=Cdn songwriter celebrates Eurovision success|url=http://news.ca.msn.com/entertainment/article.aspx?cp-documentid=24426942|access-date=2012-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714125559/http://news.ca.msn.com/entertainment/article.aspx?cp-documentid=24426942|archive-date=2011-07-14|url-status=dead}}

==Religion==

Sports

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Other

See also

References

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