Turks in Mexico
{{Short description|Ethnic group in Mexico}}
{{original research|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
|group = Turks in Mexico
|image = Reloj de la comunidad otomana de México.jpg
|caption = Reloj otomano, a gift from the Ottoman community in Mexico to commemorate the centennial of Mexican Independence
|population = 461 Turkey-born residents (2019){{cite web|title=International Migration Database|url=http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=MIG|publisher= OECD |access-date=21 January 2021|quote=Country of birth/nationality: Turkey, Variable: Stock of foreign population by nationality}}
Unknown number of Mexicans of Turkish descent
|popplace = Mexico City
|langs = Spanish (Mexican Spanish), Turkish
|rels = Predominantly Islam{{cite web|title=Ofrecen un fragmento de Turquía en Guadalajara|url=http://milenio.com/jalisco/Ofrecen-fragmento-Turquia-Guadalajara_0_614938542.html|publisher=Grupo Milenio|quote=En cuanto a la religión, la mayoría practica el Islam...|access-date=8 March 2016}} and Judaism{{cite web|title=Dimensión Antropológica|url=http://www.dimensionantropologica.inah.gob.mx/?p=2917|publisher=Grupo Milenio|access-date=10 June 2016}}
|related = Turkish diaspora
}}
{{Turkish people}}
Turks in Mexico ({{langx|tr|{{italics correction|Meksika Türkleri}}}}, {{langx|es|{{italics correction|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. {{Needs citation|date=January 2023}}
History
According to census records, "Turks" have been present in Mexico since at least 1895 with 453 individuals recorded.{{cite web|title=Estadísticas Históricas de México|url=http://www.inegi.gob.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/integracion/pais/historicas10/Tema1_Poblacion.pdf|publisher=National Institute of Statistics and Geography|access-date=8 March 2016|pages=83|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201212345/http://www.inegi.gob.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/integracion/pais/historicas10/Tema1_Poblacion.pdf|archive-date=1 February 2016}} 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).{{cite web |title=Los sirio-libaneses |url=https://www.semana.com/especiales/articulo/los-sirio-libaneses/81638-3/ |website=Semana.com |access-date=21 January 2021 |language=es |date=28 October 2006}} Most of the Ottoman immigrants were Lebanese Christians, with smaller populations of Syrians and Jews.{{Needs citation|date=January 2023}}
Institutions
- Casa Turca Ciudad de México (2003) and Casa Turca Guadalajara (2015)
See also
{{portal|Turkey|Mexico}}
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
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{{Turkish diaspora}}
{{Ethnic groups in Mexico}}
Category:Ethnic groups in Mexico