Serbs in Turkey

Turkish Serbs
Срби у Турској; Srbi u Turskoj
Total population
	165,401 (1965)
Regions with significant populations
	Istanbul, Gallipoli
Languages
	Turkish and Serbian
Religion
	Sunni Islam, minority Serbian Orthodox Christian

The Serbs in Turkey are Turkish citizens of Serbian descent or Serbia-born people who reside in Turkey.

History

During the age of the Ottoman Empire most of Serbia and the Balkans were under Turkish control, and many Serbs moved to Istanbul and Anatolia for reasons ranging from economic to forceful relocation. On 28 August 1521, the Belgrade Fortress was captured by Suleiman the Magnificent, using 250,000 Turkish soldiers and over 100 ships. Subsequently, most of the city was razed to the ground and its entire Orthodox Christian population was deported to Istanbul^[2] to an area that has since become known as the Belgrade forest.^[3]

Many Janissaries were of Serbian descent and were taken as children from their homes and educated in Turkey. Some Serbs achieved political prominence and several Grand Viziers were born as Serbs.

Notable people

Sokollu Mehmed Pasha

Lala Mustafa Pasha

Mahmud Pasha Angelović

Mara Branković

George Berovich

Omar Pasha

Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1456 to 1466, and 1472 to 1474
Gedik Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1474 to 1477
Deli Husrev Pasha, Ottoman statesman and second vizier
Hadım Ali Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1501 to 1503 and 1506 to 1511
Lala Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier in 1580
Semiz Ali Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1561 to 1565
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1565 to 1579
Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1604 to 1606
Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier during 1606
Nevesinli Salih Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1645 to 1647
Kara Musa Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier during 1647
Sarı Süleyman Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1685 to 1687
Daltaban Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1702 to 1703
Damat Melek Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1792 to 1794
Ivaz Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1739 to 1740
Yavuz Ali Pasha, Ottoman Governor of Egypt from 1601 to 1603
Meylişah Hatun, Consort to Sultan Osman II
George Berovich, Governor-General of Crete and Prince of Samos.
Omar Pasha (Serbian: Mihajlo Latas; 1806–1871), general, convert
Mara Branković, wife of Murad II, very influential in imperial affairs, ambassador to Venice
Osman Aga of Temesvar (1670–1725), Ottoman commander
Şehsuvar Sultan
Aşub Sultan
Skenderbeg Crnojević
George Berovich
Aganlija
Kučuk-Alija
Sali Aga
Sinan-paša Sijerčić, Ottoman Bosnian general. Bosnian Serb origin.^[4]^[5]
Malkoçoğlu family, one of four leading akinci families. Serbian origin.^[6]^[7]
Yasin Hacıoğlu, Turkish entrepreneur
Ivana Sert, Serbian-Turkish television personality, socialite, presenter, model
Celal Şengör, Turkish geologist. His paternal grandmother was a Serb. ^[8]

References

^ Heinz Kloss, Grant D. McConnell:[Kloss, Heinz; McConnell, Grant D. (октобар 1984). Linguistic Composition of the Nations of the World: Europe and the USSR. International center for research on bilinguism (на језику: енглески). 5. Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval. ISBN 2-7637-7044-4]
^ Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Ко су потомци Београђана које је Сулејман Величанствени пре пет векова одвео у Истанбул". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 4 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "The Rough Guide to Turkey: Belgrade Forest". Rough Guides. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
^ Bosanska vila. Nikola T. Kašiković. 1898. p. 301.
^ Milenko M. Vukićević (1906). Znameniti Srbi muslomani. Davidović. p. 104. Кућа Сијерчића води своје поријекло од старе српске властеоске куће Шијернића, како запнси тврде, или од Лучевпћа, како предање каже. Кад је сила османлијска навалила на Босну п Херцеговину, онда се кућа Шијернића храбро бо- рила протпв снле османлијске, борила се бранећи јуначкн своје огњиште и свој народ, свој језнк и своју слободу. Алп ко ће силн ...
^ Finkel, Caroline (2012). Osman's dream: the story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923. p. 21. ISBN 9780465008506.
^ Gemil, Tahsin (1991). Românii și otomanii în secolele XIV-XVI (in Romanian). p. 59. ISBN 978-973-27-0198-0. Malkocogullari, tot comandanţi de acingii, erau descendenţii unui feudal sirb Malkovic).
^ Celal Şengör. Balkanlar'da bitmeyen kin (MP4) (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.