Turks in Sweden
| Total population | |
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(100,000 Turkish citizens[1] 100,000[2][3]-150,000[4][5] 200,000[6] Plus a further 30,000 Turks from Bulgaria [7]) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Stockholm (Rinkeby, Tensta, Alby) · Gothenburg (Biskopsgården, Hisingen) · Malmö (Rosengard) | |
| Languages | |
| Turkish · Swedish | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam |
Turks in Sweden or Swedish Turks (Swedish: Turkar i Sverige; Turkish: İsveç Türkleri) are people of Turkish ethnicity living in Sweden. According to the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, there are 100,000 people in Sweden with a Turkish background, and a further 10,000 Swedish-Turks live in Turkey.[3]
Famous Turkish Swedes
Fittja Mosque, a Turkish mosque in Stockholm
- Kazım Ayvaz
- Kennedy Bakırcıoğlu
- Elif Ceylan
- Erdin Demir
- Sıraç Dilber
- İlhan Erşahin
- Timur Ersöz, independent filmmaker
- Muvaffak Falay
- Serkan İnan
- Mehmet Kaplan
- Vendela Kirsebom, model
- Emin Nouri
- Yksel Osmanovski
- Sermin Özürküt
- Sibel Redzep, popular Swedish singer
- Erkan Zengin, Swedish footballer
- Zafer Lavindal, Chef
Notes
- ↑ http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/START__BE__BE0101__BE0101E/UtrikesFoddaR/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=2b341905-7e62-4ea0-ae41-ccd602b6bed6
- ↑ Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. "Turkiet är en viktig bro mellan Öst och Väst". Retrieved 2011-04-14.
- 1 2 Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. "Ankara Historia". Retrieved 2011-04-14.
- ↑ Hava, Ergin (15 April 2011). "Swedish trade minister Ewa Björling calls on Turkey to cooperate in third countries". Sundays Zaman. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ↑ Hurriyet Daily News. "Businessman invites Swedes for cheap labor, regional access". Retrieved 2011-04-14.
- ↑ http://www.haberler.com/gurbetciler-isvec-te-turk-bankasi-istiyor-3894284-haberi/
- ↑ Laczko, Stacher & Klekowski von Koppenfels 2002, 187.
Bibliography
- Laczko, Frank; Stacher, Irene; Klekowski von Koppenfels, Amanda (2002). New challenges for Migration Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 90-6704-153-X.
Further reading
- Abadan-Unat N. (2004) Disputed models of integration: Multiculturalism, Institutionalization of religion, political participation presented in “Conference integration of immigrants from Turkey in Belgium, France, Denmark and Sweden” 2004 Bosphorus University Istanbul.
- Akpınar, Aylin (2004). Integration of immigrants from Turkey in Sweden: The case of women presented in “Conference integration of immigrants from Turkey in Belgium, France, Denmark and Sweden” 2004 Bosphorus University Istanbul.
- Aksoy, A. and Robins, K. (2002) “Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes.” ESRC Transnational Communities Programme. Oxford: WPTC-02-08.
- Appadurai, A. (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press
- Bibark, Mutlu (2005) Uluslararası Türk-Etnik Yerel Medyası ve Adiyet Tasarımlarının inşaasında rolü / Trans-national Turkish Ethnic Media and its role in construction of identity design. From Yurtdışındaki Türk Medyası Sempozyumu: Bildiriler / Proceedings from conference on Turkish Media Abroad (ed.) Abdülrezzak Altun.Ankara University Faculty of Communication.
- Cohen, R. (1997) ‘Global diasporas: an introduction’. London: UCL Press.
- Georgiou, M and Silverstone, R. (2005) “Editorial Introduction: Media and ethnic minorities in Europe” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Vol. 31, No. 3, May 2005, pp 433–441. Routledge. Taylor & Francis group. London
- Paine, S. (1974) Exporting workers: the Turkish case, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Theolin, Sture (2000) The Swedish palace in Istanbul: A thousand years of cooperation between Turkey and Sweden, Yapı Kredi yayıncılık AS. Istanbul, Turkey.
- Westin, Charles (2003) “Young People of Migrant Origin in Sweden” in Migration and Labour in Europe. Views from Turkey and Sweden. Emrehan Zeybekoğlu and Bo Johansson (eds.), (Istanbul: MURCIR & NIWL, 2003)
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