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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.
Turkish diaspora refers to the ethnic Turkish people living outside of Turkey. Note that this differs from the Turkic peoples living mostly in Northern and Central Asia , who are distinct ethnic groups, speaking languages belonging to the Turkic language 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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]
Watch live as efforts continue in Turkey today, 12 February, after this week’s devastating earthquake. Across southern Turkey and northwest Syria, the death toll has now exceeded 28,000, and ...
Uzbeks in Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye'deki Özbekler, Türkiye'deki Özbek Türkler, Uzbek: Туркиядаги Ўзбеклар, Turkiyadagi O‘zbeklar) - one of the ethnic groups of the country. Like the Turks, Uzbeks are Turkic-speaking and also profess Islam .