Turkophilia Explained

A Turkophile or Turcophile, (Turkish: Türksever) is a person who has a strong positive predisposition or sympathy toward the government, culture, history, or people of Turkey. This could include Turkey itself and its history, the Turkish language, Turkish cuisine, and literature, or in the broader sense, the Turkic peoples in general. The opposite of a Turkophile is a Turkophobe is a person who shows hostility, intolerance, or racism against Turkish or Turkic people, Turkish culture and Turkic countries.

Notable Turkophiles

• Marmaduke Pickthall,^[1] English novelist and Islamic scholar
• Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley,^[2] Irish peer
• Jean-Étienne Liotard,^[3] Swiss painter, art connoisseur and dealer
• David Urquhart,^{[4] [5]} Scottish diplomat, writer and politician
• Ármin Vámbéry,^[6] Hungarian Turkologist and traveller
• Ernst Jäckh,^[7] German author
• Pierre Loti,^[8] French naval officer and novelist
• Juanito, French singer
• Lev Gumilyov,^{[9] [10]} Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist
• Dimitrie Ralet,^[11] Moldavian politician and writer

See also

• Anti-Turkish sentiment
• Turanism
• Turquerie

Notes and References

1. Book: Clark, Peter . 1986 . Marmaduke Pickthall: British Muslim . 31 . 0-7043-2514-4.
2. Book: Long, Andrew C. . 2014 . Reading Arabia: British Orientalism in the Age of Mass Publication, 1880-1930 . Syracuse, New York . . 156–157 . 978-0-8156-3323-5.
3. Web site: Lived Like a Turk, Painted Like a Turk: Jean-Étienne Liotard. trdergisi.com. 3 April 2017. 22 February 2019. 4 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170404021001/http://trdergisi.com/en/lived-like-a-turk-painted-like-a-turk-jean-etienne-liotard/. live.
4. Book: Buruma, Ian. Anglomania: A European Love Affair. But Urquhart's Turkophilia went so far that even in London he ate Turkish food, bathed in Turkish baths, and lounged on Turkish sofas.. Random House. 107. 1998. 0375502068.
5. Book: Geoffrey, Nash. Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger: An Anthology. In the case of David Urquhart, who went to fight for the Greeks but stayed on to help establish the post-war boundaries, it helped turn a Philhellene into a Turkophile.. xiv. 2011. Anthem Press. 978-0857283931.
6. Book: The Turks of Central Asia. Hostler. 112. The famous Hungarian Turkologist and Turkophile, Arminius Vambery (1832-1913), embarked on adventurous travels in Russian Central Asia and in Persia and later acquainted his Turkish friends with their Central Asian relatives through his books and lectures.. 1993. University of Michigan. 0275939316.
7. Book: Türken in Berlin 1871-1945: eine Metropole in den Erinnerungen osmanischer und türkischer Zeitzeugen. Ingeborg. Böer. Ruth. Haerkötter. Petra. Kappert. Auf Betreiben des turkophilen Journalisten Dr. Ernst Jäckh.... 107. 2002. Walter de Gruyter. German. 3110174650.
8. Book: Todorov, Tzvetan. On human diversity: nationalism, racism, and exoticism in French thought. 308. 1994. And just as Chateaubriand was a Turkophobe, Loti is as much a Turkophile. Harvard University Press. 9780674634398.
9. Book: Kappler, Matthias. Intercultural Aspects in and Around Turkic Literatures: Proceedings of the International Conference Held on October 11th-12th, 2003 in Nicosia. 2006. 170. It should also be mentioned that although he was a definite Turkophile, he was always admired and valued in nationalistic circles.. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. 3447052856.
10. Book: Dugin, Alexander. Eurasian Mission: An Introduction to Neo-Eurasianism. 2014. 21. He also developed a Turkophile attitude in the theory of "ethnic complementarity".. Arktos. 978-1910524244. 2020-10-03. 2022-04-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20220407103516/https://books.google.com/books?id=lZO4CAAAQBAJ&q=lev+gumilev+turkophile&pg=PA21. live.
11. Îndrăgostitul de Stambul: Dimitrie Ralet. Mihai. Zamfir. România Literară. 35. 2008. Cu toate că se găsea în capitala unei țări ce reprezenta pentru un român trecutul întunecat și opresiunea, Ralet-scriitorul, opus diplomatului, dobîndește o inexplicabilă simpatie față de turcii înșiși. Le admiră nu doar costumele, limba, frumusețea fizică, dar și comportamentul zilnic; găsește în lumea otomană mai multă toleranță și simț al nuanțelor decît în cea occidental-europeană. Iată-l pe Ralet făcînd din nou opinie separată față de pașoptiști!. Romanian.