Circassians in Germany

The Circassian people who immigrated to Germany brought their culture with them, including their language, religion, food, and arts.

Circassian cuisine is an ethnic cuisine, based on the cooking style and traditions of the Circassians. Circassian cuisine consists of many different traditional dishes, varying by season.^[8][9] The summer time traditional dishes are mainly dairy products and vegetables.^[10] In winter and spring, the traditional dishes mostly consist of flour and meat. Traditional dishes include ficcin, seasoned chicken or turkey with sauce, boiled mutton and beef with a seasoning of sour milk along with salt and crushed garlic. Circassians in Germany who immigrated from Turkey also traditionally consume Turkish cuisine.

Most Circassians in Germany speak the Turkish language as their mother tongue, but some also speak the Circassian language, a subdivision of the Northwest Caucasian language family. The Circassian language exhibits a large number of consonants: between 50 and 60 consonants in various dialects. The earliest written records of the Circassian languages are in the Arabic script, recorded by the Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi in the 17th century.^[11] Circassians in Germany mainly speak the German language more fluently than their native Turkish and Circassian languages.

The Circassian people in Germany are predominantly Muslim. The Circassians in Germany mostly identify as Sunni Muslims of Hanafi madh'hab.

• Cem Özdemir – politician, co–chairman of the German Green Party
• Asuman Krause – actress, singer, model and TV presenter who was crowned Miss Turkey in 1998
• Şamil Çinaz – professional footballer
• Hakan Albayrak – journalist and activist
• Sinan Albayrak – TV and film actor
• Fahriye Evcen – actress and model
• Uğur İnceman – former professional footballer who played as a midfielder^[12]

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