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The Turkish diaspora (Turkish: Türk diasporası or Türk gurbetçiler) refers to ethnic Turkish people who have migrated from, or are the descendants of migrants from, the Republic of Turkey, Northern Cyprus or other modern nation-states that were once part of the former Ottoman Empire.
Across southern Turkey and northwest Syria, the death toll has now exceeded 24,000, and hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless with their houses destroyed in the middle of winter.
Watch live as Syrians in Turkey celebrate today (8 December) after rebel forces take control of Damascus. The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad has fallen, bringing a stunning end to his family ...
Voice of America estimated over 45,000 Uyghurs live in Turkey, based from Uyghur advocating groups, with 10,000 as refugees. [2] In 2021, Tokyo-based English language online news magazine Nikkei Asia [ 3 ] and online news publication Coda Story [ 9 ] reported that 50,000 Uyghurs lived in Turkey, with Nikkei Asia reporting that the diaspora was ...
Turkey has the largest Circassian population in the world, around half of all Circassians live in Turkey, mainly in the provinces of Samsun and Ordu (in Northern Turkey), Kahramanmaraş (in Southern Turkey), Kayseri (in Central Turkey), Bandırma, and Düzce (in Northwest Turkey), along the shores of the Black Sea; the region near the city of ...
Turkey will work for the safe and voluntary return home of the Syrian migrants it hosts and will help in the reconstruction of Syria after President Bashar al-Assad's sudden ouster by rebels ...
The number of Syrians in Turkey is estimated at 4 million people as of August 2022, [13] and consists mainly of refugees of the Syrian Civil War. In 2017, Syrian citizens accounted for 24% of all work permits granted to foreign nationals, making Syrians the largest single group of foreign nationals with work permits.
Minorities in Turkey form a substantial part of the country's population, representing an estimated 25 to 28 percent of the population. [2] Historically, in the Ottoman Empire, Islam was the official and dominant religion, with Muslims having more rights than non-Muslims, whose rights were restricted. [3]