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Today, approximately 15–20 million Turks living in Turkey are the descendants of refugees from the Balkans; [202] there are also 1.5 million descendants from Meskheti [203] and over 600,000 descendants from Cyprus. [204] The Republic of Turkey continues to be a land of migration for ethnic Turkish people fleeing persecution and wars.
Turkey remained neutral during most of World War II, but was involved in the Korean War. Several military interventions interfered with the transition to a multi-party system. Turkey is an upper-middle-income and emerging country; its economy is the world's 17th-largest by nominal and 12th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP.
This is a list of notable Turkish people, or the Turks, (Turkish: Türkler), who are an ethnic group primarily living in the republic of Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities have been established. They include people of Turkish descent born in other countries whose roots are in those countries.
Turkey: N/A. The Turkish census collects data on country of birth but does not collect data on ethnicity. 60,000,000 – 65,000,000 [1] [2] The Turkish language is the official language of the Republic of Turkey, under Article 3 of the 1982 Turkish constitution. Turkish people Northern Cyprus: 286,257 (2011 Turkish Cypriot census) [3]
It is a biography of Talaat Pasha. As of 2018 there had been no recent biographies of Talaat, nor of Enver Pasha, in western European languages. [1] The book discusses the author's thesis that Talaat was co-Father of the Nation to modern Turkey along with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, as well as Talaat's rule
A small number of Turkic people also live in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Small numbers inhabit eastern Poland and the south-eastern part of Finland. [299] There are also considerable populations of Turkic people (originating mostly from Turkey) in Germany, United States, and Australia, largely because of migrations during the 20th century.
Some scholars have argued that Osman's original name was Turkish, probably Atman or Ataman, and was only later changed to ʿOsmān, of Arabic origin.The earliest Byzantine sources, including Osman's contemporary and Greek historian George Pachymeres, spell his name as Ἀτουμάν (Atouman) or Ἀτμάν (Atman), whereas Greek sources regularly render both the Arabic form ʿUthmān and the ...
also: Countries: Turkey: People This category is for people from the Republic of Turkey . People who accept Turkish ethnicity are listed at Category:Ethnic Turkish people , which includes Turkish diaspora etc.