Citadel Christians

Citadel Christians
Kâle Hristiyanları
قلعه مسیحیلری
Regions with significant populations
Kirkuk, Iraq
Languages
Distinct Turkish dialect
Ottoman Turkish (liturgical)
Religion
Chaldean Catholic Church
Related ethnic groups
Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac people, Iraqi Turkmen

The Citadel Christians (Turkish: Kâle Hristiyanları; colloquially: قلعه مسیحیلری; romanised: Qəl‘ə Məsihiləri) are a community of ethnic Assyrians who speak their own dialect of Turkish and religiously follow the Chaldean Catholic Church. They are native to Kirkuk and have traditionally been the caretakers of the Kirkuk Citadel.


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