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Anti-Turkism, Turkophobia,
Turcophobia or anti-Turkish
sentiment is the hostility towards Turkish people,
Turkish
culture, the Ottoman Empire (Turkish Empire) and the
Republic of Turkey.
Anti-Turkism does not always refer to just the Turks of Turkey,
but can also refer to various Turkic peoples and Balkan Muslims. This
includes the Turkic peoples living in the Russian Federation, the Turkic states of the former Soviet
Union, the autonomous Xinjiang Uyghur region of the People's Republic of China,
the northern part of Cyprus
self-titled as Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and
even non-Turkic Balkan Muslims, particularly Bosniaks and Macedonian Muslims.
Early
History
Turcophobia is sometimes traced to the Turkish Wars of the Late Middle
Ages, viz. the attempts of Western Christianity to stem the
expansion of the Ottoman Empire. By the
middle of the 1400s special masses called missa contra
turcas (translated as "mass against Turks") were celebrated in
various places in Europe,[1]
the message of these masses was that victory over the Turks was
only possible with the help of God
and that a Christian community was therefore necessary to withstand
the cruelty of the Turks.
16th
Century
Bishop Fabri of
Vienna (1536–41) claimed that:
- "There are no crueller and more audacious villains under
the heavens than the Turks who spare no age or sex and mercilessly
cut down young and old alike and pluck unripe fruit from the wombs
of mothers".[1]
In the 16th century about 2,500 publications about the Turks
were spread around Europe (over a thousand of which were in German), in
these publications the image of the 'bloodthirsty Turk' was
imprinted on reader. In fact in the period of 1480 to 1610, twice
as many books were published about the Turkish threat to Europe
than about the discovery of the continents of America.[1]
During this time the Ottoman Empire had conquered the Balkans
and had been besieging Vienna. There was much fear
in Europe about the Ottoman
advance. But the fear was most profound to people in Germany. The reason was partly
because of the "Hapsburg propaganda that exaggerated the Turkish
threat in an effort to gain support for imperial ambitions in
eastern Europe"[2]. Luther
cleverly used these fears which were propagated by Hapsburgs by asserting that "the “Turks”
were the agents of the Devil who, along with the Antichrist located
in the heart of the Catholic Church, Rome, would usher in the Last
Days and the Apocalypse" [3].
Martin Luther
had the view that the Turks' invasion of Europe was God's
punishment of Christianity because it had allowed the corruption of
both the Holy See and the
Church. In 1518 when he defended his 95
theses, Luther claimed that God had sent the Turks to punish
the Christians in the same way as he had sent war, plagues and earthquakes. The reply of Pope Leo X was the famous
papal bull in
which he threatened Luther with excommunication and attempted to
portray Luther as a troublemaker who advocated capitulation to the Turks.[1]
In his writings On War Against the Turk and Military
Sermon Against the Turks Martin Luther is "consistent in his
theological conception of the Turks as a manifestation of God's
chastising rod"[4]. Luther
and his followers "particularly" made "important" contributions to
the view that the war between Hapsburgs and Ottomans
was also a war "between Christ and antichrist" or "between God and
the devil[5].
Of course, Hapsburgs were not the only imperial power who used
"war on Turks" as an instrument. For Portuguese Empire, that was seeking
to invade more lands in east Africa and other parts of the world,
any encounter with the "Terrible Turk" provided them with "a prime
opportunity to establish credentials as champions of the faith on
par with other Europeans"[6]
Stories of the Wolf-Turk also gave Europe this negative image of
the Turks. The Wolf-Turk was claimed to be a man-eating being, half
animal half human with a Wolf’s head and tail. Military power
and cruelty were the
recurring attributes in all these claims about the origins of the
Turks.[1]
17th
Century
During the seventeenth century Turks and Turkish life style
continued to be portrayed negatively because of political and
ideological reasons. The use of accounts of Turkish customs and Turkish people
written during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, "served as
an "ideological weapon" during the Enlightenment's arguments about
the nature of government"[7].
Authors projected an image of Turkish people that is "inaccurate
but accepted"[8].
Regarding writings on Turkish people and their life styles,
"accuracy [was] of little importance; what matters [was] the
illusion"[9].
In Sweden, the Turks were
designated the arch-enemy of Christianity. This is evident
in a book entitled Luna Turcica eller Turkeske måne,
anwissjandes lika som uti en spegel det mahometiske vanskelige
regementet, fördelter uti fyra qvarter eller böcker ("Turkish
moon showing as in a mirror the dangerous Mohammedan rule, divided
into four quarters or books") which was published in 1694 and was
written by the parish priest Erland Dryselius of Jönköping. In
sermons the country's clergy preached about the Turks' general
cruelty and bloodthirstiness and of how they systematically burned
and plundered the areas they conquered. In a Swedish school book
published in 1795 Islam was described as "the false religion
that had been fabricated by the great deceiver Muhammad, to which the Turks to this day
universally confess".[1]
In Orientalism, Edward Said noted
that:
- "Until the end of the seventeenth century the 'Ottoman peril'
lurked alongside Europe to represent for the whole of Christian civilization
a constant danger, and in time European civilization incorporated
that peril and its lore, its great events, figures, virtues, and
vices, as something woven into the fabric of life."[10]
Within
the Ottoman Empire
Within the Ottoman Empire, the name "Turk" was sometimes used to
denote backwoodsmen, bumpkins, or the illiterate peasants in Anatolia. "Etrak-i
bi-idrak", for example, was an Ottoman play on words, meaning
"the stupid Turk".[11]
Özay Mehmet in his book Islamic Identity and Development:
Studies of the Islamic Periphery mentions[12]:
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The ordinary Turks did
not have a sense of belonging to a ruling ethnic group. In
particular, they had a confused sense of self-image. Who were they:
Turks, Muslims or Ottomans? Their literature was sometimes Persian,
sometimes Arabic, but always courtly and elitist.
There was always a huge social and cultural distance between the
Imperial centre and the Anatolian periphery. As Bernard Lewis
expressed it: "in the Imperial society of the Ottomans the
ethnic term Turk was little used, and then chiefly in a rather
derogatory sense, to designate the Turcoman nomads or, later, the ignorant and
uncouth Turkish-speaking peasants of the Anatolian villages."
(Lewis 1968: 1)
In the words of a British observer of the Ottoman values and
institutions at the start of the twentieth century: "The surest
way to insult an Ottoman gentleman is to call him a 'Turk'. His
face will straightway wear the expression a Londoner's assumes,
when he hears himself frankly styled a Cockney. He is no Turk, no savage, he will
assure you, but an Ottoman subject of the Sultan, by no means to be
confounded with certain barbarians styled Turcomans, and from whom
indeed, on the male side, he may possibly be descended."(Davey
1907: 209)
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Handan Nezir Akmeşe, who describes the attempts of the Young
Turk movement to ingrain nationalism among the Turkish speakers of
the Ottoman empire prior to World War I[13]:
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One consequence was to
reinforce these officers sense of their Turkish nationality, and a
sense of national grievance arising out of the contrast between the
non-Muslim communities, with their prosperous, European-educated
elites, and "the poor Turks [who] inherited from the Ottoman Empire
nothing but a broken sword and an old-fashioned plough." Unlike the
non-Muslim and non-Turkish communities, they noted with some
bitterness, the Turks did not even have a proper sense of their own
national identity, and used to make fun of each other, calling
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Contemporary
Anti-Turkism
Before the sixties Turkey
had "relativle low emigration[14].
After the adoption of new constitution in 1961, Turkish citizens
began migrating outside[15
]. Gradually, in certain Western countries, Turks
became a "prominent ethnic minority group"[16], and
thus, become "increasingly visible and vocal"[17]. But
since the begining Turks were subject to discrimination against
them. Even when "host countries" launched "shift in policy"
regarding the immigrants "only the Turkish workers were
excluded"[18] from
them.
Germany
Among all, Turks are "the most prominent ethnic
minority group in contemporary Germany"[19]. But
discrimination against Turkish minority "occurres in various
everyday situations"[20]
in Germany. After the adoption of 1961 constitution, Turkish
citizens began migrating outside the country[15
]. While the population of Turkish immigrant
workers reaching 3 millions in numbers, Turkish minorities have
become "well-known butts of welfare chauvinism and
racial violence in Germany"[21].
After 1980, xenophobia targeting Turkish minorities grow parallel
with unemployment rates and "latent anti-Semitism was
transformed into open 'anti-Turkism'"[22].
Turks subjected to destructive jokes and public discourse and were
shown "ludicrously different in their food tastes, dress, names,
and even in their ability to develop survival techniques[23].
Those "eye-opening" jokes contain such a great deal of animosity
and aggressive tendencies so that it is "reflected in the actual
increasing violence towards Turks"[24]. As a
result of all these discrimination, "serious behavioral
consequences of prejudice against Turks is prevailing in
Germany"[20].
Netherlands
Netherlands has a
sizable Turkish minority group as well as Germany. Turkish ethnic
minority group is the "second largest ethnic minority group living
in the Netherlands" and their culture is considered to "differ
substantially from Dutch culture"[25]. Even
though progressive policies are installed, "especially compared
with those in some other European countries such as Germany"[26] Human Rights
Watch criticized Netherllands for new legislations violating
the human rights of Turkish ethnic minority group[27].
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
published its third report on Netherlands in 2008. In this report
Turkish minority group is described as a notable community which
have been particularly affected by "stigmatisation of and
discrimination against members of minority groups"[28] as a
result of controversial policies of the governments of Netherlands.
The same report also noted that "the tone of Dutch political and
public debate around integration and other issues relevant to
ethnic minorities has experienced a dramatic deterioration".
Recently, use of the word "allochtonen" as a "catch-all
expression" for "the other" emerged as a new development.
European Network against Racism, an international
organisation supported by European Commission reported that,
in Netherlands, half of the Turks reported having experienced
racial discrimination[29]. Same
report points "dramatic growth of islamophobia" parallel with antisemitism. Another
international organisation European Monitoring Centre on Racism
and Xenophobia highlighted negative trend in Netherlands,
regarding attitudes towards minorities, compared to avarage EU results[30]. The
analysis also noted that compared to most other Europeans, in the
Netherlands, majority group is "more in favour of cultural
assimilation of minorities" rather than "cultural enrichment by
minority groups".
Bulgaria
In the 2000s, Anti-Turkism has risen dramatically in Bulgaria.
As an indicator of the rise of Anti-Turkism, Boiko Borisov, "a flamboyant, populist
wrestler-cum-politician with anti-Turkish, anti-Gypsy
tendencies"[31] came
to power in June-July 2009 elections. In December 2009, PM Borisov "declared
himself in favor of a motion put forth by the nationalist party ATAKA and its leader for holding a referendum over the
broadcast of daily Turkish language news emissions on the Bulgarian National
TV"[32].It
has become ordinary to hear Anti-Turkic comments from politicians
even from cabinet members so that Turkish prime minister "expressed his concern of
rising anti-Turkish sentiments in Bulgaria"[33] to Bulgarian prime minister. Turkish Foreign Ministry also "expressed
its concern over the rising heated rhetoric in Bulgaria"[34]
targeting ethnic Turkish minority group. The striking point was
that "not just ATAKA but a
large number of Bulgarians have resented the news in Turkish"[32].
Sayings
The term "Turk" acquired the a meaning similar to "barbarian" or "heathen" in
various European languages, as evident from the following
dictionary entries:
Many vices in the world were associated with the
Turks. Others came from history, when Turks invaded Europe. Some
sayings:
- In Dutch
there are, although at present not much used, a lot of demeaning
phrases about Turks. The most used ones include "eruit zien als
een Turk" ("to look like a Turk") which means to be dirty,
disgusting and "rijden als een Turk" ("driving like a
Turk") which means someone is a bad driver. For decades after the
Turkish immigrants came to The Netherlands
most encyclopedias and dictionaires, including the Van Dale, still
referred to a Turk as someone who is dirty, barbaric and
bloodthirsty, instead of someone who lives in
Turkey.[37][38]
- In Italian phrases such as "bestemmia
come un Turco" ("he swears like a Turk"). One of the most
infamous Italian phrase (and one much used by headline writers) was
"Mamma li Turchi!" ("Oh my, the Turks are coming!") this
is used to suggest an imminent danger, as when the Ottoman Turks
threatened Europe.[39] In
addition, Italians regularly use the expression "Fumare come un
Turco" ("To smoke like a Turk").
- In German[1]
there are phrases that mean "he smokes like a Turk".[40]
- In Romanian, the expression "Măi,
turcule" (You, Turk).[41] is
used to address to a person that fails to comprehend or is
ignorant. The expression "a fuma ca un turc" (to smoke
like a Turk) is used to denote a person who smokes a lot.
- In French, the word Turc was once
used in proverbial
expressions such as C'est un vrai Turc ("He's a real
Turk"), used to indicate that a person was harsh and pitiless.[42]
- When the Spanish wanted to
make disparaging remarks about a person, he/she was called
"Turco".[1]
- In Maltese, a Tork is someone
feared and unwanted due to his nature. In fact, when a Maltese
person is left out or forgotten from a share between a group, this
person would quickly say: "Mela jien xi Tork, jew?" ("Am I
a Turk, or what?"). Also, when a rare event occurs, a common saying
is: "Tgħammed Tork!" ("A Turk was baptised!") because a
Turk turning to Christianity from Islam is seen as a rare
event.
- In Austrian rural areas
you can sometimes still hear today how children are called in from
play: "Es ist schon dunkel. Türken kommen. Türken kommen"
("It’s already dark, The Turks are coming. The Turks are
coming").[1]
- In Persian, "Tork-e khar"
("Turkish ass/donkey") is a derogatory joke usually directed
against Turkic-speaking Iranian Azeris.[43][44]
- In Russian there is a proverb
Незваный гость хуже Татарина ("An unwanted guest is worse
than a Tatar").[45]
- In Greek
"Έγινε Τούρκος", literally "He became a Turk", denotes
extreme anger towards someone or because of something ("He was so
angry that he resembled a Turk").[46]
- In Norwegian there is a saying: "Sint
som en tyrker" which means "Angry like a Turk"[47]
- In Armenian, a word Turk is
still commonly used to question someone's stupidity: "հո թուրք
չես?!" ("Are you a Turk?"), also to describe disordered and
very dirty house: "կարծես թուրքի տուն լինի" ("Looks like a
Turk's house").[48]
Anti-Turkish
quotes
Voltaire characterised
[49]
the Turks as:
- "tyrants of the women and enemies of arts".
He also spoke[49]
of the need:
- "to chase away from Europe these barbaric
usurpers"
He accused the Turks[49]
of having destroyed Europe's ancient heritage from :"the
Orient’s Christian realm" and wrote:
- "I wish fervently that the Turkish barbarians be chased
away immediately out of the country of Xenophon, Socrates, Plato, Sophocles and Euripides. If we wanted, it could be done
soon but seven crusades of superstition have been undertaken and a
crusade of honour will never take place. We know almost no city
built by them; they let decay the most beautiful establishments of
Antiquity, they reign over ruins."
Philipp Melanchthon described
Turkish people as follows:
- "When i consider history, I find that there has been no
nation tht has practiced more blasphemy of God, brutally, shameful
fornication, and every kind of wild and chaotic living than the
Turks."[50]
Cardinal Newman described the Turks as:
- the "great anti-Christ among the races of
men."[51]
He also said in the The Blight of
Asia, a controversial book written by an American diplomat
about Turkish human rights violations,
- “The barbarian
power, which has been for centuries seated in the very heart of the
Old World, which has in
its brute clutch the most famous countries of classical and
religious antiquity and many of the most fruitful and beautiful
regions of the earth; and, which, having no history itself, is heir
to the historical names of Constantinople and Nicaea, Nicomedia and Caesarea, Jerusalem and Damascus, Nineva and Babylon, Mecca and Bagdad, Antioch and Alexandria, ignorantly holding in its
possession one half of the history of the whole world.”[51]
William Ewart Gladstone, a 19th
century British Prime
Minister was quoted in the same book as saying:
- “Let me endeavor, very briefly to sketch, in the rudest
outline what the Turkish race was and what it is. It is not a
question of Mohammedanism simply, but of Mohammedanism
compounded with the peculiar character of a race. They are not the
mild Mohammedans of India, nor
the chivalrous Saladins of
Syria, nor the cultured Moors of Spain. They were, upon the whole, from the black
day when they first entered Europe, the one great anti-human
specimen of humanity. Wherever they went a broad line
of blood marked the track behind them, and, as far as their
dominion reached, civilization disappeared from view. They
represented everywhere government by force as opposed to government
by law.—Yet a government by force can not be maintained without the
aid of an intellectual element.— Hence there grew up, what has been
rare in the history of the world, a kind of tolerance in the midst
of cruelty, tyranny and rapine. Much of Christian life was contemptuously left alone
and a race of Greeks was attracted to Constantinople which has all
along made up, in some degree, the deficiencies of Turkish Islam in
the element of mind!”[51]
Ziya Gökalp,
prominent Turkish ideologue of Pan-Turkism, in his writings heavily
criticizes officials of the Ottoman Empire for always using the
term "donkey Turk" regarding its Turkish subjects.[52]
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