Turks in Poland

Not to be confused with Lipka Tatars.

Turks in Poland (Turkish: Polonya'daki Türkler) are people of Turkish ethnicity living in Poland who form one of the country's smaller minority groups.

Turks in Poland

Total population
25.000 (2023 estimate from the Turkish government)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Warsaw Poznań Gdańsk Łódź
Languages
Turkish Polish
Religion
Sunni Islam irreligious Roman Catholicism

A Turkish Kebab shop in Łódź

History

Very few Turks lived in Poland in the interwar period according to the 1921 Polish census, including three in Lwów, two in Warsaw and one each in Chełm and Grodno.^[2][3][4][5]

Demographics

There is little coherent statistical data regarding their numbers. The majority of these Turks live in Warsaw and Łódź but there are also Turkish communities in Gdańsk, Poznań, Kraków, and Wrocław, and students in cities like Lublin or Krosno.^[6][7]

Many Turks in Poland are entrepreneurs and investors.^[6]

Naturalization

Naturalization of Turkish citizens:^[8]

Year	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Persons	8	8	4	15	1	5	11	19	36

Notable people

• Feridun Erol [pl], film director and screenwriter (Turkish father)
• Jakub Erol [pl], graphic artist (Turkish father)
• Maria Aurora of Spiegel, Ottoman Turkish mistress of Augustus II the Strong^[9]
  • children:
  • Frederick Augustus Rutowsky, commanded Saxon forces in the Siege of Pirna^[10]
  • Maria Anna Katharina Rutowska, noblewoman
• Teuvo Tulio, film director (Turkish-Polish father)

Bibliography

• Koryś, Izabela; Żuchaj, Olimpia (2000), Turkish Migratory Flows To Poland: General Description, Institute for Social Studies University of Warsaw.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2008), International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI 2008, OECD Publishing, ISBN 92-64-04565-1.
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme (2004), The State of The World's Cities 2004/2005: Globalization and Urban Culture, Earthscan, ISBN 1-84407-160-X.

See also

• Turkey portal
• Poland portal

• Poland–Turkey relations
• Turks in Europe
  • Turks in the Czech Republic
  • Turks in Germany
  • Turks in Russia
  • Turks in Ukraine

References

1. "Relations between Türkiye and Poland". www.mfa.gov.tr. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 2023-03-17. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
2. Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (in Polish). Vol. XIII. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1924. p. 24.
3. Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (in Polish). Vol. I. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1925. pp. 4–5.
4. Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (in Polish). Vol. IV. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1924. p. 9.
5. Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (in Polish). Vol. V. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1924. p. 30.
6. United Nations Human Settlements Programme 2004, 95.
7. Pędziwiatr, K. (2014) Turkish Community in Poland: from Textile Vendors to Top Managers. In: Kujawa, K., eds Polish-Turkish Foreign Policy: 600 Years of Bilateral Relations”, Çanakkale University Publishing House
8. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008, 361.
9. Wilson, Peter (2002), German Armies: War and German Society, 1648-1806, Routledge, p. 86, ISBN 978-1135370534
10. Killy, Walther; Vierhaus, Rudolf (2011), "Rutowsky", Dictionary of German Biography, vol. 8, Walter de Gruyter, p. 509, ISBN 978-3110966305, As the illegitimate son of King Augustus II of Poland and Elector of Saxony (Frederick Augustus I) and a Turkish woman who later became Frau von Spiegel R. was educated at Parisian and Sardinian courts.