The following is a list of Turkish Canadians, including both original immigrants of full or partial Turkish descent who obtained Canadian citizenship and their Canadian descendants.
Most notable Turkish Canadians have come from, or originate from, Turkey but there are also notable Canadians of Turkish origin who have immigrated from, or descend from, the other former Ottoman territories, especially Turks from the Balkans (e.g. Mesut Mert has a Turkish-Bulgarian background), the island of Cyprus (e.g. Ozay Mehmet and Anna Silk have a Turkish Cypriot background), the Levant, and North Africa (e.g. Nihal Mazloum, has a Turkish-Egyptian).
Some notable Turkish Canadians have also come to Canada from areas where there is a modern Turkish diaspora; for example, Viola Yanik has a Turkish-German background.
Academia edit
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- Yaprak Baltacioğlu, Chancellor of Carleton University
- Henri Barki, social scientist
- Izak Benbasat, Professor of Information Systems and Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of British Columbia
- Selim Deringil, Professor of History at Boğaziçi University
- Cigdem Eskicioglu, Professor of Engineering at the University of British Columbia
- Ramazan Gençay, Professor of Economics at University of Windsor, Carleton University, and Simon Fraser University
- Feridun Hamdullahpur, President of the University of Waterloo[1]
- Ozay Mehmet, Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University (Turkish Cypriot origin)[2]
- Tuncer Ören, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ottawa
- M. Tamer Özsu, Professor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo
- Semih Tezcan, Professor of Engineering and second president of Boğaziçi University
- Murat Tuncali, Professor of Mathematics at Nipissing University
- Aycan Yurtsever, physicist at the Université du Québec
- Ayşe Zeki, psychiatrist and the current president of the Refugee Rights Association in Northern Cyprus (Turkish Cypriot origin)[3]
Arts and literature edit
- Üstün Bilgen-Reinart, writer
- Alkan Chaglar, journalist (Turkish Cyptiot origin)
- Pinar Demirdag, multidisciplinary artist
- Rima Elkouri, journalist and novelist
- Aline Gubbay, photographer, art historian and writer (Turkish mother)[4][5]
- Timothy Guy Kent, painter (Turkish father)
- Nil Köksal, journalist
- Nihal Mazloum, artist (Turkish-Egyptian origin)[6]
- Robert Paul Weston, children's author (Turkish British father)[7]
Cinema and television edit
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- Ennis Esmer, actor[8]
- Onur Karaman, film director
- Arda Ocal, TV and radio broadcaster
- Anna Silk, actress (British-Turkish Cypriot mother)
- Ilkay Silk, CC, actress, playwright, producer, and educator (Turkish Cypriot origin)[9]
Fashion edit
- Erdem Moralioğlu, fashion designer (Turkish father)[10]
Music edit
- Ozan Boz, musician and producer
- Mercan Dede, composer, ney and bendir player, DJ and producer[11]
- Orhan Demir, jazz musician
- Minor Empire, Turkish-Canadian progressive music group
- Kaan Güneşberk, musician, songwriter, and composer
- Evren Ozdemir, rapper[12]
Religion edit
- Ahmet Fuad Sahin, founder of the International Development and Relief Foundation
Sports edit
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- Hıjran Alı Boyacı, football player
- Melisa Ertürk, women's football player
- Meryem İyin, taekwondo player
- Erol Kahraman, ice hockey player (Turkish Cypriot origin)[13][14]
- Tuğba Karademir, figure skater
- Mesut Mert, football coach (Turkish Bulgarian origin)
- Enes Sali, football player (Turkish Romanian origin)
- Viola Yanik, wrestler (Turkish German origin)[15]
Other edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ University of Waterloo. "The Hamdullahpur era begins today". Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ Cyprus Mail. "Amazing twists of a fascinating past". Archived from the original on 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ^ Dr. Ayşe Zeki - Refugee Rights Association MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (PDF), The Active Citizenship Network, retrieved 7 March 2021
- ^ Aline Gubbay: Historian Of Montreal Dies, History News Network, 2005, retrieved 12 April 2021,
A silk merchant's daughter, Alice Helfer was born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920. Her mother was Turkish, her father, a Russian Jew from Georgia.
- ^ Publications about Westmount, A View of Their Own: The Story of Westmount, retrieved 12 April 2021,
A silk merchant's daughter, Aline Gubbay was born in Alexandria, Egypt on June 20, 1920. Her mother was Turkish, her father, a Jew from Georgia (formerly part of the Soviet Union). She and her family moved to England when she was 4... In 1948, she met and married Eric Gubbay, a cardiologist originally from Calcutta, and they emigrated to Winnipeg.
- ^ Nihal Mazloum, Canadian Museum of History, 2000, retrieved 20 September 2017,
Of Turkish-Egyptian ancestry, Nihal Mazloum was born in Paris in 1951 and grew up in Cairo, in an affluent and multilingual family. After receiving a Bachelor's degree in anthropology from Cairo's American University, she left Egypt to study ethnology in Paris. She remained there for seven years and then immigrated to Canada in 1978. She lives in Montreal.
- ^ Stewart, Heather Grace (2009), A first novel in rhyming couplets?, Queen's University at Kingston, retrieved 16 April 2021,
Born in Dover, England, in 1975 to a British-Turkish father and an Indian-Grenadian mother, Robert spent most of his childhood in Georgetown, Ontario.
- ^ CTV. "Travelling to Turkey the ideal summer vacation for 'The Listener's' Ennis Esmer". Archived from the original on August 15, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ^ Silk, Ilkay, Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, retrieved 7 March 2021
- ^ The Independent (2008-09-15). "Star in the making: Designer Erdem Moralioglu". London. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
- ^ "Mercan Dede ile kutlama". Hürriyet. 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
...son olarak Türk asıllı Kanadalı sanatçı Mercan Dede sahne alacak.
- ^ MSN News. "Cdn songwriter celebrates Eurovision success". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ^ Rebge, Süleyman (2015), Erol Kahraman gururlandırdı, Yeni Düzen, retrieved 8 March 2021
- ^ Kıbrıslı Türk Erol Kahraman, Buz Hokeyi Dünya Şampiyonası'nda forma giyiyor, Halkın Sesi Gazetesi, 2015, retrieved 8 March 2021
- ^ Kanada'nın 'Yanık' gururu, Radikal, 2004, retrieved 17 March 2021