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The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Turkey.According to various estimates, they compose between 15% and 20% of the population of Turkey. [4] [5] [6] There are Kurds living in various provinces of Turkey, but they are primarily concentrated in the east and southeast of the country within the region viewed by Kurds as Turkish Kurdistan.
Kurdish sources put the figure at 10 [12] to 15 million Kurds in Turkey. [13] Kurds mostly live in Northern Kurdistan, in Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia. But large Kurdish populations can be found in western Turkey due to internal migration. According to Rüstem Erkan, Istanbul is the province with the largest Kurdish population in Turkey. [14]
Kurdish sources claim there are as many as 20 or 25 million Kurds in Turkey. [176] In 1980, Ethnologue estimated the number of Kurdish-speakers in Turkey at around five million, [177] when the country's population stood at 44 million. [178]
A recent study estimates that there are 2,708,000 marriages between Turks and Kurds. [36] According to a survey done in March 2020 by Area Araştırma, 20.4% of the total population of Turkey claim to be Kurdish (either Kurmanji speaking or Zazaki speaking). Ethnolinguistic estimates in 2014 by Ethnologue and Jacques Leclerc: [37] [38] [39]
Turkish Kurdistan or Northern Kurdistan (Kurdish: Bakurê Kurdistanê) is the southeastern part of Turkey [1] where Kurds form the predominant ethnic group.The Kurdish Institute of Paris estimates that there are 20 million Kurds living in Turkey, the majority of them in the southeast.
About half of all Kurds live in Turkey. According to the CIA Factbook they account for 18 percent of the Turkish population. [92] They are predominantly distributed in the southeastern corner of the country. [93] The best available estimate of the number of persons in Turkey speaking the Kurdish language is about five million (1980).
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They mostly live in the Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey. [3] Zazas generally [ 8 ] consider themselves Kurds , [ 9 ] [ 6 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and are often described as Zaza Kurds by scholars.