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Turks (Turkish: Türkler), or the Turkish people, are the largest Turkic ethnic group, comprising the majority of the population of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. They natively speak the various Turkish dialects. In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still exist across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire.
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.
According to Milliyet, a 2008 report prepared for the National Security Council of Turkey by academics of three Turkish universities in eastern Anatolia suggested that there are approximately 55 million ethnic Turks, 9.6 million Kurds, 3 million Zazas, 2.5 million Circassians, 2 million Bosniaks, 500,000–1.3 million Albanians, 1,000,000 ...
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." [37] The analysis modeled each person's DNA as having originated from K ancestral populations and varied the parameter K from 2 to 7.
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 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 ...
The largest of the Turkic-speaking peoples in the Caucasus are Azerbaijanis who number 8,700,000 in the Republic of Azerbaijan. In the Caucasus region, they live in Georgia , Russia ( Dagestan ), Turkey and previously in Armenia (before 1990).
Turkish media have criticized Christian missionary activity intensely. [163] There is an ethnic Turkish Protestant Christian community most of them came from recent Muslim Turkish backgrounds, rather than from ethnic minorities. [164] [165] [166] [167]