Turks in Egypt#Notable people

{{see also|Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)}}

{{see also|Ottoman Egypt}}

During the four centuries of Ottoman rule, Turkish settlers arrived predominately from Anatolia; however, many also arrived from the Ottoman Isles (such as the Aegean islands, Crete, and Cyprus), as well as from prominent Ottoman cities (such as Istanbul, Algiers, and Tunis).{{cite web|last=Milner|first=Alfred|year=1901|title=England in Egypt: With additions summarizing the course of events to the close of the year 1898|publisher=Edward Arnold|page=219|website=openlibrary.org|asin=B0014V7JAI |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL146353W/England_in_Egypt |access-date=7 May 2020}}

In 1833 one estimate claimed that the Turkish population in Egypt was 30,000;{{cite book|last=Douin|first=Georges|year=1927|title=La mission du Baron de Boislecomte, l'Egypte et la Syrie en 1833|publisher=Cairo: Royal Egyptian Geographical Society|page=110|oclc=1377895|asin=B00180UKI8 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1377895 |access-date=7 May 2020}} however, in 1835, the Missionary Herald newspaper claimed that the population [of Ottoman Egypt] is of a mixed character, the great mass being Arabic language speaking Muslims, and a minority of Turkish speakers who belonged to the Ottoman ruling-class.{{citation|year=1835|title=American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Syria and the Holy Land. Extracts from a Communication of Mr.Smith, Dated at Beyroot|volume=xxxi|publisher=Missionary Herald|page=130}} Similarly, in 1840, The Saturday Magazine series claimed that Egypt's population was only about two million and a half, the majority of whom are of Arabic speaking masses and Ottoman ruling class.{{citation|year=1840|title=The church scholar's reading-book, selected from the Saturday magazine|publisher=The Saturday Magazine|page=297}} This study is widely discredited and has no scientific basis.

By 1878 the Karl Baedeker Firm published a census stating that the population of Egypt "hardly exceeds 5 millions" and that the population of Turkish origin numbered barely 100,000 (accounting to approximately 2% of the population), mainly concentrated to the towns.{{citation|year=1878|chapter=Turks|title=Egypt: Lower Egypt, with the Fayûm and the peninsula of Sinai, Part 1 of Egypt: Handbook for Travellers|publisher=K. Baedeker|page=52}}

Under the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, Article 102, former Ottoman (Turkish) subjects resident in Egypt were denaturalized by Turkey and automatically acquired Egyptian nationality unless they were absent from the territory on 18 December 1914.

Prior to the Egyptian revolution in 1919, the ruling elite were mainly Turkish, or of Turkish descent, which was part of the heritage from the Ottoman rule of Egypt. The ethnic affiliation in Egypt at this time was still blurry; however, Amal Talaat Abdelrazek describes the Turkish society in Egypt with the following words:

{{blockquote|"This interiorized rejection of things local and Arabic in part derives from the fact that the ruling and upper classes in the years before the revolution were mainly Turkish, or of Turkish descent, part of the heritage from the Ottoman rule in Egypt. If one was not really Western, but belonged to the elite, one was Turkish. Only the masses, the country folk, were quite simply Egyptian in the first place, and possibly Arabs secondarily."{{citation|last=Abdelrazek|first=Amal Talaat|year=2007 |title=Contemporary Arab American women writers: hyphenated identities and border crossings|publisher=Cambria Press|isbn=978-1-934043-71-4|page=37}}}}

During the Ottoman rule of Egypt, the region was ruled directly by Turkish-speaking elites.{{citation|last=Al-Wer|first=Enam|year=2006|chapter=The Arabic-speaking Middle East|title=Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, Volume 3|editor-last=Ammon|editor-first=Ulrich|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=3110184184|page=1922}} Consequently, the lexical Turkish influence of Egyptian Arabic has been clearer and more consistent than in Levantine Arabic, especially the formal terms like Pasha and Bek which are still used till today in daily conversations. Today, many Turkish lexical items (and Persian borrowings through Turkish) have been firmly integrated into Egyptian Arabic.

According to an article by Gamal Nkrumah in the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly, estimates regarding the population of the Turkish minority vary considerably, ranging from 100,000 to 1,500,000.{{citation|last=Gamal|first=Gamal|title=Did the Turks sweeten Egypt's kitty? |publisher=Al-Ahram Weekly|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16549.aspx|quote=Today, the number of ethnic Turks in Egypt varies considerably, with estimates ranging from 100,000 to 1,500,000. Most have intermingled in Egyptian society and are almost indistinguishable from non-Turkish Egyptians, even though a considerable number of Egyptians of Turkish origin are bilingual.|access-date=1 May 2018}} However, one estimate in 1971 suggested that the population of Cretan Turks alone numbered 100,000 in Egypt.{{cite book|last=Rippin|first=Andrew|year=2008|title=World Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies|publisher=Routledge|page=77|isbn=978-0415456531}} Moreover, another estimate in 1993 claimed that the Turkish minority in Egypt numbered 1.5 million at the time.{{citation|last=Akar|first=Metin|year=1993|title=Fas Arapçasında Osmanlı Türkçesinden Alınmış Kelimeler|journal=Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi|volume=7|pages=94–95|quote=Günümüzde, Arap dünyasında hâlâ Türk asıllı aileler mevcuttur. Bunların nüfusu Irak'ta 2 milyon, Suriye'de 3.5 milyon, Mısır'da 1.5, Cezayir'de 1 milyon, Tunus'ta 500 bin, Suudî Arabistan'da 150 bin, Libya'da 50 bin, Ürdün'de 60 bin olmak üzere 8.760.000 civarındadır. Bu ailelerin varlığı da Arap lehçelerindeki Türkçe ödünçleşmeleri belki artırmış olabilir.}}

{{Commons category|Turks in Egypt}}

• List of Egyptian people of Turkish descent
• History of Ottoman Egypt
• Egypt in the Middle Ages
• Turkish minorities in the former Ottoman Empire
• Turks in the Arab world
• Iraqi Turkmens
• Syrian Turkmens
• Turks in Algeria
• Turks in Lebanon
• Turks in Tunisia
• Oghuz Turks
• Egypt–Turkey relations

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