List of Algerians of Turkish origin

This is a list of notable Algerian people of full or partial ethnic Turkish origin.

Academia

• Djelloul Benkalfate educator and socialist (family of Turkish origin)
• Abdelhalim Bensmaia, Islamic scholar (family of Turkish origin)
• Abdelhalim Ben Smaya, scholar (family of Turkish origin)
• Hamdan Khodja, scholar and merchant (father of Turkish origin)
• Ibn Hamza al-Maghribi, Algerian mathematician (Turkish mother)
• Malek Bennabi, writer and philosopher (Turkish great-grandfather)

Arts

• Hacène Benaboura, artist (family of Turkish origin)
• , painter (family of Turkish origin; nephew of the Racim brothers)
• Mohamed-Réda Benabdallah Khodja, artist (from a Constantinian family of Turkish origin)
• Mohammed Racim, artist (from an Algerine family of Turkish origin)
• Omar Racim, artist and writer (from an Algerine family of Turkish origin)

Cinema

• Isabelle Adjani, Algerian-French actress (Algerian father of Turkish origin and German mother)
• Ahmed Magdy, Algerian-Egyptian actor (paternal grandmother of Turkish origin)

Literature

• Mohamed Bencheneb, writer (ancestors from Bursa)
• Lakhdar Ben Cherif, poet (mother of Turkish origin)
• Slimane Bengui, director of the first French-language Algerian newspaper "El Hack" (family of Turkish origin)
• Ahmed Ben-Triki ("Ben Zengli"), poet (father of Turkish origin)
• Leïla Chellabi, writer (Algerian father of Turkish origin)
• Mustapha Haciane, poet (family of Turkish origin)
• Leïla Sebbar, writer (paternal grandmother from an old Ténès family of Turkish origin)
• Wassyla Tamzali, writer (family of Turkish and Spanish origin)

Medicine

• Ben Lerbey, possibly the first Algerian doctor (from an old Algerine family of Turkish origin)

Military

• Benali Boudghène, resistance fighter (family of Turkish origin)
• Abdelmalek Mohieddine, officer (claimed to be from Turkey)

Music

• Mahieddine Bachtarzi, actor and singer (from a bourgeois family of Turkish origin)
• Mustapha Benkhemmar, master of Andalusian music (family of Turkish origin)
• , master of Andalusian music (was a Kouloughli)
• Abdelkrim Dali (), musician
• Salim Halali, singer (father of Turkish origin and mother of Judeo-Berber origin)
• , musician (Turkish origin)
• Hadj Sameer, French musician (Algerian-Turkish origin)
• Mustapha Skandrani, pianist, performer of chaâbi music (family from Ä°skenderun)
• Mohamed Sfinja, master of Andalusian music
• , master of the zurna (father of Turkish origin)

Politics

• Ghemati Abdelkrim, high-ranking leader of the Islamic Salvation Front (family of Turkish origin)
• 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)
• Mohammed Saleh Bendjelloul, co-founder of the Federation of Elected Natives (native of Constantine and of Turkish origin)
• 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)
• Lakhdar Ben-Tobbal, resistance fighter (father of Turkish origin)
• Abderrahmane Berrouane, politician (mother of Arab and Turkish origin)
• Ahmed Chaouch, caïd (father of Turkish origin)
• Ahmed Bey, the last Bey of Constantine (Turkish father and Arab mother)
• Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj, often called the "father" of Algerian nationalism (father of Turkish origin)
• Mourad Kaouah, Deputy of Algiers (1958–62), French politician, and football player (Turkish origin)
• Hasan Pasha, three-times Beylerbey of the Regency of Algiers
• , drew up the Algerian Nationality Code after Algerian independence; Deputy of Constanine (1946) (from one of the old Algerian families of origin Turkish)
• Chérif Sid-Cara, doctor and politician in the French Fourth Republic (from an old Algerian family of Turkish origin)
• 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)
• Mustapha Stambouli, nationalist leader (family of Turkish origin)

Sports

• Patrick Abada, French pole vaulter and Olympian (from an old Algerian family of Turkish origin)
• Omar Benmahmoud Ali Raïs, sportsman (Turkish origin)
• Benjamin Stambouli, French professional footballer for Schalke 04, Algerian father of Turkish origin (Henri Stambouli)

See also

• Turks in Algeria
• Kouloughlis
• List of governors and rulers of the Regency of Algiers
• List of beys of Constantine, Algeria

References