They adopted Turkish culture in order to establish a Turkish identity to become more recognized by the host population [ 3 ] and have denied their Romani background [ 4 ] to express their Turkishness. During a population census, they declared themselves as Turks instead of Roma.
While they have always been allowed to live in Turkish communities as Turks, they face economic discrimination and have conflicting views among Turks while Christian Romani do not consider themselves as part of Romani society. He built his karavansaray in Malatya in Today it can still be seen as a ruin. Hamza al-Isfahani wrote about 12, musicians from India who was taken by Bahram Gur to Persia, [ 8 ] also did Ferdowsi.
The Greek Doctor A. Paspati made the statement in his book from , that Turks married often Roma women and the Rumelian Romani dialect is nearly lost by the Muslim Turkish Roma, who speak entirely Turkish. These families still continued to appear as Gypsies in the records. The meaning of the name comes from the Rumelian Romani and has different meanings. They are the descendants of Muslim Roma who intermingled with Turks at the time of Ottoman Empire [ 19 ] Romanian Christian Roma Groups regard them simply as Turks term for Muslims and are distinct from them.
In Kosovo lives a Turkish Roma community named Divanjoldjije. They are named after there original settlement where they once came from, the Divanyolu Street in Istanbul , and settled in Pristina at the time of the Ottoman Kosovo.
They do not live in Roma quarters but together with the host population. Several families emigrated to Turkey in β They and there descendants are accepted fully as Turks.
