A Turkophile or Turcophile, () 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

Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss painter, art connoisseur and dealer

David Urquhart, Scottish diplomat, writer and politician

Ármin Vámbéry, Hungarian Turkologist and traveller

Ernst Jäckh, German author

Pierre Loti, French naval officer and novelist

Juanito, French singer

Lev Gumilyov, Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist

Dimitrie Ralet, Moldavian politician and writer

See also

Anti-Turkish sentiment

Turanism

Turquerie

References

External links

Admiration of foreign cultures

Culture of Turkey

Turkish nationalism

Turkophilia