Turks in Sweden


Turks in Sweden or Swedish Turks are people of Turkish ethnicity living in Sweden, mostly of Macedonian Turkish and Bulgarian Turkish descent and ancestry from the Balkan states of North Macedonia and Bulgaria while another large remainder of the ethnic minority has immigrant ancestral roots in Turkey proper. According to the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, there are 100,000 people in Sweden with a Turkish background, and a further 10,000 Swedish-Turks live in Turkey. Many Turks in Sweden have double citizenship and 37,000 are registered voters in Turkey.
Turkish interpreters in Sweden have encouraged asylum seekers from Turkey to become informants on behalf of Turkish authorities. Interpreters have also threatened to send information on regime critics to Turkish authorities.

Turkish organizations

Mosques controlled by Diyanet

According to Dagens Nyheter in 2017, nine mosques in Sweden have imams sent and paid for by the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs. Along with their religious duties, the imams are also tasked with reporting on critics of theTurkish government. According to Dagens Nyheter, propaganda for president Erdogan is openly presented in the mosques.
In the 2018 Swedish general election, 10 000 Swedich citizens living in Turkey were expected to cast their votes in Turkey.

Famous Turkish Swedes