[5][6] They are cultural Muslims who adopted Sunni Islam of Hanafi madhab and religious male circumcision at the time of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate and Ottoman Empire.
[9] Evliya Çelebi told that Mehmed II take after 1453 from Balat, Muslim Gypsies to Istanbul, their descendants became musicians.
[11] They migrated from Anatolia to Marmara Region and finally settled in the Balkans at the time of the Ottoman Empire.
The French orientalist Henri Bourgeois referred to the Turkish Roma as Pseudo Chingiane, especially the newspaper Laço who was published in 1910 by Emin Resa.
[15] The majority of Turkish Roma live in Turkey, but also significant Turkish Roma communities live in Bulgaria, Greece (Western Thrace), North Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, in lesser case Romania (Dobruja) and Kosovo.
[20][21] In Western Thrace, Greece, in cities like Alexandroupoli (Dedeağaç) – Komotini (Gümülcine) – Xanthi (İskeçe), Muslim Roma called Turko-Gifti, (i.e. such as Sepečides or Sevljara and Kalpazaja who are Turkish speaking.
[22][23] In Northern Cyprus there are Turkish speaking Gypsies, who are very close to them in Turkey and West Thrace in Greece.
They are named after there original settlement where they once came from, the Divanyolu Street in Istanbul, and settled in Pristina at the time of the Ottoman Kosovo.
[26] Romanlar in Turkey came to Germany and Austria and other European Countries as Gastarbeiter but they are fully assimilated within the Turks in Europe.
[31] Self-Identification of Bulgarian Muslim Roma Youth in Berlin shows to pretend to be Turkish 97%, while only 3% to be Romani.
A special characteristic example of this are the Turkish gypsies of the Veliko Tarnovo district, who entered in the Bulgarian registers by nationality, "Turks" emigrated to Turkey.
[46][47] In Turkey, the festival of Kakava is hold in Edirne and the belief in a savior named Baba fingo are part of the Roma culture.
[53] It is not uncommon for oil wrestlers to be of Turkish Roma descent and they hope to escape from their misery by doing so.