Turkophilia

A Turkophile or Turcophile, (Türksever) is a person who has a strong positive predisposition or sympathy toward the government, culture, history, or people of Turkey. This could include Turkey itself and its history, the Turkish language, Turkish cuisine, and literature, or in the broader sense, the Turkic peoples in general. The opposite of a Turkophile is a Turkophobe is a person who shows hostility, intolerance, or racism against Turkish or Turkic people, Turkish culture and Turkic countries.

Notable Turkophiles

 * Marmaduke Pickthall, English novelist and Islamic scholar
 * Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley, Irish peer
 * Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss painter, art connoisseur and dealer
 * David Urquhart, Scottish diplomat, writer and politician
 * Ármin Vámbéry, Hungarian Turkologist and traveller
 * Ernst Jäckh, German author
 * Pierre Loti, French naval officer and novelist
 * Juanito, French singer
 * Lev Gumilyov, Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist
 * Dimitrie Ralet, Moldavian politician and writer