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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.
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.
In 2022, nearly 100 000 Russian citizens migrated to Turkey, becoming the first in the list of foreigners who moved to Turkey, meaning an increase of more than 218% from 2021. [109] As of August 2023, the number of refugees of the Syrian civil war in Turkey was estimated to be 3 307 882 people. The number of Syrians had decreased by 205 894 ...
Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey; Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire; The word that Iranian Azerbaijanis use for the Azerbaijani language; Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkey), 1299–1922, previously sometimes known as the Turkish Empire
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]
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. [37] [38]According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, [39] potentially in the Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.