Turks of the Dodecanese
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The Turks of the Dodecanese are a community of ethnic Turks, indigenous Greek Muslims and Cretan Muslims living on the Dodecanese islands of Rhodes and Kos.
Suleymaniye Mosque in Rhodes
Defterdar Mosque in Kos
Iliad Venetus A folio 37v Book II 681 685
Greek Muslims
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Greek Muslims, also known as Grecophone Muslims, are Muslims of Greek ethnic origin whose adoption of Islam dates either from the contact of early Islamic caliphates with the Byzantine Empire or to th
Turks of the Dodecanese
…The Turks of the Dodecanese (Turkish: On İki Ada Türkleri) are a community of ethnic Turks, indigenous Greek Muslims and Cretan Muslims living on the Dodecanese islands of Rhodes (Turkish: Rodos) and Kos (Turkish: İstanköy). The Dodecanese was gradually settled by…
Greek woman in hijab, Turkey, 1710
Cretan Muslims, 19th-20th century.
Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915) was an Ottoman poet who is considered the founder of the modern school of Turkish poetry, his mother was a Greek convert to Islam from Chios.
Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1910) was an Ottoman statesman, archaeologist, intellectual, art expert and pioneering painter of Greek descent. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts (Turkish: Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi), today known as the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.