List of Algerians of Turkish origin
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Academia
- Djelloul Benkalfate educator and socialist (family of Turkish origin)[1]
- Abdelhalim Bensmaia, Islamic scholar (family of Turkish origin)[2]
- Abdelhalim Ben Smaya, scholar (family of Turkish origin)[3]
- Hamdan Khodja, scholar and merchant (father of Turkish origin)[4]
- Ibn Hamza al-Maghribi, Algerian mathematician (Turkish mother)[5]
- Malek Bennabi, writer and philosopher (Turkish great-grandfather)[6]
Arts
- Hacène Benaboura, artist (family of Turkish origin)[7]
- Ali Ali Khodja, painter (family of Turkish origin; nephew of the Racim brothers)[8]
- Mohamed-Réda Benabdallah Khodja, artist (from a Constantinian family of Turkish origin)[9]
- Mohammed Racim, artist (from an Algerine family of Turkish origin)[10]
- Omar Racim, artist and writer (from an Algerine family of Turkish origin)[10]
Cinema
- Isabelle Adjani, Algerian-French actress (Algerian father of Turkish origin and German mother)[11][12][13][14][15]
- Ahmed Magdy, Algerian-Egyptian actor (paternal grandmother of Turkish origin)[16]
Literature
- Mohamed Bencheneb, writer (ancestors from Bursa)[17]
- Lakhdar Ben Cherif, poet (mother of Turkish origin)[18]
- Slimane Bengui, director of the first French-language Algerian newspaper "El Hack" (family of Turkish origin)[19]
- Ahmed Ben-Triki ("Ben Zengli"), poet (father of Turkish origin)[20]
- Leïla Chellabi, writer (Algerian father of Turkish origin)[21]
- Mustapha Haciane, poet (family of Turkish origin)[22]
- Leïla Sebbar, writer (paternal grandmother from an old Ténès family of Turkish origin)[23]
- Wassyla Tamzali, writer (family of Turkish and Spanish origin)[24]
Medicine
Military
- Benali Boudghène, resistance fighter (family of Turkish origin)[26]
- Abdelmalek Mohieddine, officer (claimed to be from Turkey)[27]
Music
- Mahieddine Bachtarzi, actor and singer (from a bourgeois family of Turkish origin)[28][29]
- Mustapha Benkhemmar, master of Andalusian music (family of Turkish origin)[30]
- Larbi Bensari, master of Andalusian music (was a Kouloughli)[31]
- Abdelkrim Dali (fr), musician[32]
- Salim Halali, singer (father of Turkish origin and mother of Judeo-Berber origin)[33][34]
- Mustapha Nador, musician (Turkish origin)[35]
- Hadj Sameer, French musician (Algerian-Turkish origin)[36]
- Mustapha Skandrani, pianist, performer of chaâbi music (family from İskenderun)[37]
- Mohamed Sfinja, master of Andalusian music[38]
- Boualem Titiche, master of the zurna (father of Turkish origin)[39]
Politics
- Ghemati Abdelkrim, high-ranking leader of the Islamic Salvation Front (family of Turkish origin)[40]
- Benaouda Hadj Hacène Bachterzi, municipal councilor in Oran; founder of the "Es-Sandjak" ("l’Etandard") and "Le cri indigene" newspapers (belonged to one of the oldest Algerian-Turkish families)[41]
- Mohammed Saleh Bendjelloul, co-founder of the Federation of Elected Natives (native of Constantine and of Turkish origin)[42]
- Benyoucef Benkhedda, headed the third GPRA exile government of the National Liberation Front; acted as a leader during the Algerian War (1954–62) (family of Turkish origin)[43]
- Lakhdar Ben-Tobbal, resistance fighter (father of Turkish origin)[44]
- Abderrahmane Berrouane, politician (mother of Arab and Turkish origin)[45]
- Ahmed Chaouch, caïd (father of Turkish origin)[46]
- Ahmed Bey, the last Bey of Constantine (Turkish father and Arab mother)[47]
- Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj, often called the "father" of Algerian nationalism (father of Turkish origin)[48][49][50][51]
- Mourad Kaouah, Deputy of Algiers (1958–62), French politician, and football player (Turkish origin)[52]
- Hasan Pasha, three-times Beylerbey of the Regency of Algiers
- Kaddour Sator, drew up the Algerian Nationality Code after Algerian independence; Deputy of Constanine (1946) (from one of the old Algerian families of origin Turkish)[53]
- Chérif Sid-Cara, doctor and politician in the French Fourth Republic (from an old Algerian family of Turkish origin)[54]
- Nafissa Sid-Cara, first female minister to serve in the French Fifth Republic and the first ever Muslim woman to serve as a minister in a French government (from an old Algerian family of Turkish origin)[54]
- Mustapha Stambouli, nationalist leader (family of Turkish origin)[55]
Sports
- Patrick Abada, French pole vaulter and Olympian (from an old Algerian family of Turkish origin)[56]
- Omar Benmahmoud Ali Raïs, sportsman (Turkish origin)[57]
- Benjamin Stambouli, French professional footballer for Schalke 04, Algerian father of Turkish origin (Henri Stambouli)