the romanlar are closer to turks as to any roma groups of europe. they have only a lesser similarity with the turkish speaking xoraxane roma from bulgaria, romani (dobruja) or greece (west-thrace). they also havent an minority status, and they didnt want to be called as minority. some of the turkish romani came as guest worker to germany and austria in the 1960-70's. none of them was looked as roma by the host population, only as turks in germany, where some of the turkish-romani men married with german or austrian womans. the offsprings of this marriages called melezi (halfblood), a turkish loanword in the romani language dialects of the muslim roma for people with mixed romani blood.