Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Cretan Turks (Greek: Τουρκοκρητικοί Tourkokritikoi Turkish: Giritli Girit Türkleri or Giritli Türkler) Muslim-Cretans or Cretan Muslims were the Muslim inhabitants of Crete (until 1923) and now their descendants who settled principally in Turkey the Dodecanese Islands under Italian administration Syria (notably in the village of Al-Hamidiyah) Lebanon Libya and Egypt as well as in the larger Turkish diaspora.Most Cretan Muslims were local Greeks whose ancestors had converted to Islam in the wake of the Ottoman conquest of Crete.
