Turkish Foodways

Where in the world

• Türkiye territory

Communities and languages

• Turkish community documented

Languages: Turkish

What is recorded

• Turkey is not one cuisine. The seven geographic regions are recorded separately, and Kurdish, Laz, Circassian, Arab, Armenian, Rum, Sephardic, Syriac, Crimean Tatar, Alevi and Balkan muhacir traditions are each their own entity. A dish may belong to several at once. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• related to Azerbaijani Foodways possible
• related to Persian Foodways documented

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• influenced Anatolian Neolithic Foodways unverified

  Archaeology about a place, not descent to a modern cuisine.

• influenced Central Asian Turkic Foodways possible

  A documented migration and a linguistic relationship. Not proof that any given Anatolian dish travelled from Central Asia.

• influenced Hittite-Period Foodways unverified
• influenced Ottoman Foodways documented
• originates from Turkish Foodways in France documented
• originates from Turkish Foodways in the Netherlands documented
• originates from Turkish Foodways in the United Kingdom documented
• originates from Turkish-American Foodways documented
• originates from Turkish-German Foodways documented
• part of Republican Turkish Foodways documented
• related to Aleppian Foodways documented

  ⚠ Aleppo’s hinterland was cut from it by the 1920 border. Gaziantep and Urfa share its pepper, its pistachio and much of its kitchen, and neither city derives from the other.

• related to Aleppo Pepper documented

  ⚠ The same cultivar is sold as pul biber, Maraş and Urfa pepper, and since 2012 much "Aleppo pepper" on the market has been Turkish-grown.

• related to Bulgarian Black Sea Foodways documented
• related to Gagauz Foodways documented

  Gagauz is a Turkic language and the pastry, dairy and lamb traditions run straight into Anatolian and Balkan Turkish practice.

• related to Kibbeh documented

  İçli köfte is the same dish. No direction of borrowing is asserted.

• related to Kosovo Turkish Foodways documented
• related to Köttbullar — Swedish Meatballs disputed

  An official Swedish account of 2018 derived köttbullar from an Ottoman recipe brought back by Charles XII. The claim is widely repeated and poorly evidenced; meatballs are an old and widespread European form.

• related to Migration and Contemporary Belgian Food documented
• related to Migration and Contemporary Danish Food documented
• related to Migration and Contemporary Swedish Food documented
• related to Moldovan Foodways documented

  Three centuries of Ottoman suzerainty: stuffed vegetables, pilaf, aubergine, coffee and layered pastry.

• related to Muhammara possible

  ⚠ Gaziantep and Urfa cook versions under other names. Recorded as related, with no direction of travel asserted.

• related to Ottoman Contact and the Moldavian Table documented
• related to Sarmale and Stuffed Vegetables documented

  Sarma and dolma are the same family.

• related to Strandzha Foodways documented

  The Strandzha forest continues across the Turkish border.

• related to Syrian Sweets documented

  A shared Ottoman confectionery world; Syrian, Turkish, Lebanese, Greek and Armenian forms exist and none is derived from the others here.

• related to Turkish Community Foodways in Bulgaria documented

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

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