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Today, the city of Misrata is considered to be the "main center of the Turkish-origin community in Libya"; [265] in total, the Turks form approximately two-thirds (est. 270,000 [266]) of Misrata's 400,000 inhabitants. [266]
Turks also played an important role in bringing Eastern cultures to the West and Western cultures to the East. Their own religion became the pioneer and defender of the foreign religions they adopted after Tengrism , and they helped their spread and development ( Manichaeism , Judaism, Buddhism , Orthodox , Nestorian Christianity and Islam ).
Most Turkic people today are Sunni Muslims, although a significant number in Turkey are Alevis. Alevi Turks, who were once primarily dwelling in eastern Anatolia, are today concentrated in major urban centers in western Turkey with the increased urbanism. Turkic Sunni Muslims generally follow the Hanafi rite. Azeris are traditionally Shiite ...
According to Yunusbayev et al. (2015), genetic evidence points to an origin in the region near South Siberia and Mongolia as the "Inner Asian Homeland" of the Turkic ethnicity. [4] Similarly several linguists, including Juha Janhunen , Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs, suggest that Mongolia is the homeland of the early Turkic language. [ 5 ]
The authors found "7.9% (±0.4) East Asian ancestry in Turks from admixture occurring 800 (±170) years ago." [14] According to a 2012 study of ethnic Turks, "Turkish population has a close genetic similarity to Middle Eastern and European populations and some degree of similarity to South Asian and Central Asian populations."
Couric took over Norville’s hosting spot in 1991 and remained on Today through 2006. She recalled her decision to leave the show in her 2021 memoir, Going There, writing, “By 2005, I was at a ...
The Ottoman Turks (Turkish: Osmanlı Türkleri) were a Turkic ethnic group native to Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia , they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire , in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the entirety of the six centuries that it existed.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. Americans of Turkish birth or descent Ethnic group Turkish Americans Türk Amerikalılar The 27th Annual Turkish Day Parade (2008) in New York Total population 252,256 [a] 2023 American Community Survey 350,000-500,000 Turkish Coalition of America Regions with significant populations ...