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{{Short description|Ethnic group in the Republic of Turkey}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Indians in Turkey
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| population       = 300
| popplace         = [[Istanbul]]
| langs            = [[English language|English]]{{•}}[[Turkish language|Turkish]]{{•}}[[Hindi]]{{•}}[[Malayalam]]{{•}}[[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]{{•}}[[Languages of India|Indian Languages]]
| rels             = [[Hinduism]]
| native_name      = 
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}}

'''[[India]]ns''' in '''[[Turkey]]''' are a small community numbering 300 and comprising roughly 100 families.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/part1-est.pdf |title=Estimated Size of Overseas Indian Community: Country-wise |access-date=29 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721165845/http://www.indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/part1-est.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="H">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/01/31/stories/2007013101822000.htm|title=Turkey "stuck in the Awaraa days?"|author=Rasheeda Bhagat|work=[[Business Line]]|date=31 January 2007}}</ref> Most of them work as doctors and computer engineers or employees in [[multinational corporation]]s.<ref name="H"/> India also has a small business presence in Turkey through representative offices of [[Reliance Industries]], [[Tata Motors]] and [[Indorama]].

Most Indians are [[Hindu]] and the community forms the bulk of Hindus in Turkey. In recent times, there have been efforts to promote tourism and culture from India as a means of developing the community and establishing better relations with Turkish society.<ref name="H"/>

== Ottoman Empire ==
Some [[Muslim Roma]] families in Istanbul who deny their Roma origins claim to be the descendants of [[Indian Muslim]] men who served at the medical team of the Red Crescent Society of India, led by [[Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari]] and [[Abdur Rahman Peshawari]], to care wounded Ottoman soldiers during the [[Balkan War (1912-13)]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ilmfeed.com/indian-muslims-helped-ottomans-balkan-wars/|title=The Indian Muslims who Helped the Ottomans During the Balkan Wars|date=6 March 2019}}</ref>
After the war, few of the Muslim Indian men from the medical team, didnt returned to India, but stayed in Istanbul and married Turkish women who were widows, whose descendants then married later each other and therefore they had the brown skin color, they call themselves Hintli<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://heritagetimes.in/the-indian-subcontinent-red-crescent-societys-aid-to-the-ottoman-state-during-the-balkan-war-in-1912/|title=Heritage Times - the Indian Subcontinent Red Crescent Society's Aid to the Ottoman State during the Balkan war in 1912|date=30 April 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[India–Turkey relations]]
* [[Turks in India]]
* [[Roma in Turkey]]

==References==
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[[Category:Asian diaspora in Turkey]]
[[Category:Indian diaspora by country|Turkey]]
[[Category:Indian diaspora in Europe|Turkey]]
[[Category:India–Turkey relations]]
[[Category:Turkish people of Indian descent| ]]


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