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The Basketmaker Roma, in Sepečides Romani language named once Sevlengere Roma, are a Muslim Roma subgroup, who speak Turkish, Sepečides Romanes and Greek language and live in Western Thrace. They use officially the hellenized Turkish word Sepetčides (Basketmaker) for themselves. About the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, at 1923, the Sepetčides Muslim Roma from Thessaloniki and other places, must left Greece together with Turkish Muslims, and settled in Turkey. There descendants use the Turkish word Sepetçiler (Basketmaker), and speak only Turkish today.