Turks in Jordan, also known as Turkish Jordanians or Jordanian Turks ( tr, Ürdün Türkleri), are people of Turkish ancestry living in

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. These people have had a thriving presence in

since the rule of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...

. Today, there is a minority of about 60,000 people in the country who are the descendants of the Ottoman-Turkish immigrants. In addition to this, there are also 8,262 Turkish citizens who are recent migrants to

Notable people

Lara Abdallat Lara Abdallat (born 1981 or 1982) is a Jordanian activist, hacker, and former beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Jordan in 2010 and was the first runner-up in the Miss Arab beauty contest in 2011. Her online activism began following the release ...

, winner of

Miss Jordan Miss Jordan ( ar, ملكة جمال الأردن) was a national Beauty pageant in Jordan. History Miss Jordan was founded in 1959 and organized by Jihad Magazine under the directorship of John Halabi. It was an annual event held with the patrona ...

2010 ( Turkish Syrian mother) * Rania Al-Abdullah,

Queen of Jordan This is a list of the women who have been queen consort of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan since the emirate was elevated to the status of a kingdom in 1949. As all monarchs of Jordan have been required by law to be male, there has never been ...

(maternal Turkish grandfather) *

Muhanna Al-Dura Mohanna Durra ( ar, مهنا دره), , (1938 – 24 January 2021) was a Jordanian painter widely regarded as a pioneer of the Jordanian Arts Movement and for being the first to introduce Cubism and abstract art into the Jordanian visual arts com ...

, painter (Turkish mother) *

Ahmet Düverioğlu Ahmet Düverioğlu (born 4 March 1993), known as Ahmad Hekmat Al-Dwairi in Jordan, is a Turkish-Jordanian international professional basketball player who last played for Frutti Extra Bursaspor of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He uses ...

, basketball player (Turkish mother) *

Zein Al-Sharaf Talal Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil ( ar, زين الشرف بنت جميل; 2 August 1916 – 26 April 1994) was the Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Talal. Queen Zein was the mother of King Hussein. Family She was born in Alexandria, Egypt, into a f ...

( Turkish Cypriot origin) * Prince Mired bin Ra'ad, grandson of the Turkish painter Fahrelnissa Zeid *

Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad bin Zeid al-Hussein ( ar, زيد ابن رعد الحسين; born 26 January 1964) is a Jordanian former diplomat who is the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvan ...

, grandson of the Turkish painter Fahrelnissa Zeid * Mihrimah Sultan, Imperial Princess of Ottoman Empire

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Ethnic groups in Jordan Middle Eastern diaspora in Jordan

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