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Turkish people are not considered to be persons of color (“PoC”). In the UK, Turkey is accepted as a European country, and Turkish people are explicitly grouped with “other white background” like Polish, Greeks, and Cypriots. Whereas in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, Turkish people are defined in other categories.
White Turks ( Turkish: Beyaz Türkler) is a term used in Turkey for the urban population that embraced or directly benefited from Turkey’s modernization. They are often generalized as embracing values such as secularism, Western enlightenment, positivism and republicanism. White Turks are in contrast to the so-called Black Turks ( Turkish ...
Turkish people or Turks ( Turkish: Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still live across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire.
Average Turkish person is white and both USA and UK classify Turkey as ‘white’. But Turkey is very diverse and I hate this garbage american ‘race’ system. Turks are white Caucasians to be precise. I feel like "white" in this context is implying socio-political factors which I don't like to indulge in.
It’s Complicated. Mr. Genc is an essayist and novelist. He lives in Istanbul. People wearing masks of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern secular Turkey. A new online database of ...
The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don't. Federal government standards require the U.S. census to count people with roots in the Middle East or North ...
The Turkish case is a compelling one because of the magnitude of the whiteness campaign. In 1909, the US Circuit Court in Cincinnati set out to decide ‘whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalised as a white person’. The New York Times covered the case without noting that the plaintiff who brought the case was a Turk.
