page_title: Turks in Algeria
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Turks in Algeria / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of the Algerian singer Salim Halali (1920-2005) taken during his youth (ca 1930s).
context_page_description: The Turks in Algeria, also commonly referred to as Algerian Turks, Algerian-Turkish Algero-Turkish and Turkish-Algerians are ethnic Turkish descendants who, alongside the Arabs and Berbers, constitute an admixture to Algeria's population. During Ottoman rule, Turkish settlers began to migrate to the region predominately from Anatolia. A significant number of Turks intermarried with the native population, and the male offspring of these marriages were referred to as Kouloughlis due to their mixed Turkish and central Maghrebi heritage. However, in general, intermarriage was discouraged, in order to preserve the "Turkishness" of the community. Consequently, the terms "Turks" and "Kouloughlis" have traditionally been used to distinguish between those of full and partial Turkish ancestry.
  In the late nineteenth century the French colonisers in North Africa classified the populations under their rule as "Arab" and "Berber", despite the fact that these countries had diverse populations, which were also composed of ethnic Turks and Kouloughlis. According to the U.S.
context_section_description: Patrick Abada, French pole vaulter and Olympian
  Mustapha Adane, painter
  Ghemati Abdelkrim, politician
  Ali Khodja Ali (fr), painter
  Mahieddine Bachtarzi, actor and singer
  Benaouda Hadj Hacène Bachterzi, politician and publicist
  Hacène Benaboura, artist
  Mohamed Bencheneb, writer
  Rachid Bencheneb, scholar
  Saadeddine Bencheneb, professor
  Ali Bencheneb, former Rector of the Académie de Reims (2003-2007)
  Lakhdar Ben Cherif, poet
  Dr Mohammed Saleh Bendjelloul, politician
  Slimane Bengui, director of the first French-language Algerian newspaper "El Hack"
  Djelloul Benkalfate educator and socialist
  Benyoucef Benkhedda, politician
  Mustapha Benkhemmar, musician
  Larbi Bensari (fr), musician
  Abdelhalim Bensmaia, scholar
  Abdelhalim Ben Smaya, scholar
  Lakhdar Ben-Tobbal, resistance fighter
  Ahmed Ben-Triki ("Ben Zengli"), poet
  Abderrahmane Berrouane, politician
  Ahmed Chaouch, caïd
  Ahmed Bey, the last Bey of Constantine
  Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the President of Algeria
  Leïla Chellabi, writer
  Abdelkrim Dali (fr), musician
  Mustapha Haciane, poet
  Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj, politician
  Djanina Messali-Benkelfat, writer
  Salim Halali, singer
  Mourad Kaouah, Deputy of Algiers (1958 to 1962), French politician, and football player
  Ahmed Kara-Ahmed (fr), painter
  Hamdan Khodja, scholar and merchant
  Mohamed-Réda Benabdallah Khodja, artist
  Mustapha Khodja (fr), lieutenant of the National Liberation Army
  Dr. Ben Lerbey, possibly the first Algerian doctor
  Ahmed Tewfik El Madani, politician
  Ahmed Magdy, Algerian-Egyptian actor
  Ibn Hamza al-Maghribi, Ottoman mathematician
  Abdelmalek Mohieddine, officer
  Mustapha Nador (fr), musician
  Hasan Pasha (son of Barbarossa), three-times Beylerbey of the Regency of Algiers
  Mohammed Racim, artist
  Omar Racim, artist and writer
  Omar Benmahmoud Ali Raïs, sportsman
  Hadj Sameer, archaeologist and artist
  Kaddour Sator (fr), politician and lawyer
  Leïla Sebbar, writer
  Mohamed Sfinja, musician
  Chérif Sid-Cara, Doctor and French politician
  Nafissa Sid-Cara, French politician
  Mustapha Skandrani, musician
  Benjamin Stambouli, football player
  Henri Stambouli, football player
  Mustapha Stambouli, politician
  Athmane Tartag (fr), General
  Wassyla Tamzali, writer
  Boualem Titiche (fr), musician
  Mohammed Zmirli (fr), painter
  Malek Bennabi (fr), thinker 
  Mahboub Bati (fr), songwriter
  Djamel Chanderli (fr), filmmaker
  Benali Boudghène dit Colonel Lotfi (fr), resistance fighter
caption: The Algerian musician Salim Halali was paternally of Turkish origin.[116][117]
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