Re: Query: Status of Roma in Turkey

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Subject: Re: Query: Status of Roma in Turkey

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Original sender: William McKinney <[email protected]>

Re: Query: Status of Roma in Turkey


Dear Roy Freed,
 
This is a brief description of the status of Roma in Turkey, according
to the World Directory of Minorities, published by Minority Rights
Group International (London, 1997, p. 383).
 
"There are probably 50,000 Roma, or Gypsies, mainly Romani speaking.
They arrived from north-west India sometime between 800 and 1300 CE.
Many have lived in Balat in Istanbul since the Turkish conquest in
1453. Some are sedentary but most are nomadic. Some of the nomads
travel with the Yoruk... They are nominally Muslim and a very few
Christian. They are widely stigmatized and excluded from mainstream
Turkish society."
 
For further information, I suggest contacting Claude Cahn at the
European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) in Budapest. Here is his contact
information:
[email protected]
Tel. +36 14132200
Fax. +36 14132201
 
Best regards,
 
William McKinney

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