Notable people

• Kazım Ayvaz
  Kazim Ayvaz
  Kazım Ayvaz , is a former Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Lightweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1964 Olympics and became twice World champion....
  
  
• Isa Bagci
• Eva Bender
• Elif Ceylan
  Elif Ceylan
  Elif Ceylan is a Swedish voice actress. She provided the voice for the lead character of Eli in the widely acclaimed 2008 film Let the Right One In. Late in production, it was decided that Leandersson's voice would be replaced by a darker voice, because the character was supposed to be 200 years...
  
  
• Sıraç Dilber
  Siraç Dilber
  Sıraç Dilber is a Turkish scientist. NK cells are needed to fight against bacteria and cancerous tumours; but even when they are present, they cannot fight the disease effectively. Dilber and his team managed to increase the number of cells by 200....
  
  
• İlhan Erşahin
• Muvaffak Falay
  Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay
  Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay is a Turkish trumpeter. Born in 1930 in Kuşadası, he studied trumpet and piano in Ankara Conservatory. In 1960 he entered the radio orchestra under the conduction of Kurt Edelhagen, in Köln...
  
  
• Serkan İnan
  Serkan Inan
  Serkan İnan is a Swedish professional basketball player of Turkish descent.-International career:Serkan İnan is a regular Sweden national team player.-External links:***...
  
  
• Mehmet Kaplan
  Mehmet Kaplan
  Mehmet Güner Kaplan is a member of the Swedish parliament aligned with the Swedish Green Party and former spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Sweden and Young Muslims of Sweden...
  
  
• Denize Karabuda
• Vendela Kirsebom
  Vendela Kirsebom
  Vendela Maria Kirsebom is a Norwegian-Swedish model and actress living in Nesodden, Norway.-Early life and career:Vendela Kirsebom was born in Stockholm, Sweden to a Norwegian mother; her Swedish father was of Turkish descent. At age 13, Kirsebom was discovered in a Stockholm restaurant by Eileen...
  
  , model
• Sara Lumholdt
  Sara Lumholdt
  Sara Helena Lumholdt is a Swedish pop singer, and former member of the Swedish quartet A*Teens.-Career:Despite worldwide success, A*Teens disbanded in 2004 and Lumholdt took a short break from the limelight....
  
  
• Emin Nouri
  Emin Nouri
  Emin Nouri is a Swedish football defender playing for Kalmar FF. He is of Bulgarian-Turkish descent.He joined Östers IF 1996 from local side Växjö Norra. Nouri has also played for the Swedish national u-21 team.- External links :*...
  
  
• Yksel Osmanovski
  Yksel Osmanovski
  Yksel Osmanovski is a former Swedish football forward....
  
  
• Sermin Özürküt
  Sermin Özürküt
  Sermin Özürküt is a Turkish-Swedish political figure who served in Swedish Parliament, the Riksdag, from 2002 to 2006.She is a journalist by profession and competed for her electoral seat in Stockholm County as a member of the Left Party...
  
  
• Sibel Redzep
  Sibel Redzep
  Sibel Redzep, is a Macedonian-born Swedish pop singer of Turkish descent. She is known from the Swedish television show Idol 2005, where she was the second runner up....
  
  , popular Swedish singer
• Zübeyde Simsek
• Erkan Zengin
  Erkan Zengin
  Erkan Zengin is a Swedish footballer of Turkish descent. He currently plays for Eskişehirspor.He got his first contact with football playing at the playgrounds in Fittja and was not a part of a team until he was nine years old, when he came to Hammarby's youth academy. As a 17-year-old, he played...
  
  , Swedish footballer
• Zadaı Najdüm, Swedish footballer

Further reading

• Abadan-Unat N. (2004) Disputed models of integration: Multiculturalism, Institutionalization of religion, political participation presented in “Conference integration of immigrants from Turkey in Belgium, France, Denmark and Sweden” 2004 Bosphorus University Istanbul.
• Akpınar, Aylin (2004). Integration of immigrants from Turkey in Sweden: The case of women presented in “Conference integration of immigrants from Turkey in Belgium, France, Denmark and Sweden” 2004 Bosphorus University Istanbul.
• Aksoy, A. and Robins, K. (2002) “Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes.” ESRC Transnational Communities Programme. Oxford: WPTC-02-08.
• Appadurai, A. (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press
• Bibark, Mutlu (2005) Uluslararası Türk-Etnik Yerel Medyası ve Adiyet Tasarımlarının inşaasında rolü / Trans-national Turkish Ethnic Media and its role in construction of identity design. From Yurtdışındaki Türk Medyası Sempozyumu: Bildiriler / Proceedings from conference on Turkish Media Abroad (ed.) Abdülrezzak Altun.Ankara University Faculty of Communication.
• Cohen, R. (1997) ‘Global diasporas: an introduction’. London: UCL Press.
• Georgiou, M and Silverstone, R. (2005) “Editorial Introduction: Media and ethnic minorities in Europe” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Vol. 31, No. 3, May 2005, pp 433–441. Routledge. Taylor & Francis group. London
• Paine, S. (1974) Exporting workers: the Turkish case, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Theolin, Sture (2000) The Swedish palace in Istanbul: A thousand years of cooperation between Turkey and Sweden, Yapı Kredi yayıncılık AS. Istanbul, Turkey.
• Westin, Charles (2003) “Young People of Migrant Origin in Sweden” in Migration and Labour in Europe. Views from Turkey and Sweden. Emrehan Zeybekoğlu and Bo Johansson (eds.), (Istanbul: MURCIR & NIWL, 2003)

External links

• İsveç Türk İşçileri Dernekleri Federasyonu
• Bråda dagar inför det turkiska premiärministerbesöket