Turkish - Worldwide distribution (2024)

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Which country has the most Turkish people? ›

The Turkish-Germans are the largest ethnic minority group in Germany and also the largest Turkish community in the Turkish diaspora. The German census counts around three million Turks living in Germany. This does not only count those born in Turkey, but also descendants.

Turkish is natively spoken by the Turkish people in Turkey and by the Turkish diaspora in some 30 other countries.

The regional coastlands of the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, and the Aegean Sea are the most densely settled regions; accounting for less than two-fifths of the country's land area, the regions together represent more than half its population.

Turkish Americans live in all fifty states, although the largest concentrations are found in New York City and Rochester, New York; Washington, D.C.; and Detroit, Michigan.

The vast majority of the population of modern Turkey consists of ethnic Turks. Ethnic Turks are people who speak the Turkish language. The largest minority group is the Kurds, who make up well over 12 percent of the population. Neither Kurds nor Arabs, another minority group, enjoy special constitutional protection.

The closest language to Turkish is Azerbaijani. Azerbaijani and Turkish belong to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family and share many similarities in terms of grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics.

Turkish is a Turkic language. Turkish is most closely related to other Turkic languages, including Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Kazakh. Another theory is that it is one of the many Altaic languages, which also include Japanese, Mongolian, and Korean.

Turks. A Turkish community currently lives in Western Thrace, in the north-eastern part of Greece. According to the 1991 census, there were approximately 50,000 Turks, out of the approximately 98,000 Muslim minority of Greece Other sources estimate the size of the minority between 120,000 and 130,000.

Since Turkey is an Islamic country, birth control and abortion are not popular. The traditional early marriage for women and high illiteracy rate among women have contributed to a rapid population growth. In the past 20 years, however, the national economy has been overburdened by a rapid population growth.

What is the male to female ratio in Turkey? ›

There are an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 Americans of Turkish descent living throughout the country, with the largest concentrations being in the New York/New Jersey area and in California.

Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively. Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others. There are over 300 million Arabs.

The Turks and Germans were equally distant to all three Mongolian populations. These results confirmed the lack of strong genetic relationship between the Mongols and the Turks despite the close relationship of their languages (Altaic group) and shared historical neighborhood.

The proportion of Turks from the East European-West Asian ancestry is 33.2%. Roma samples, which show significant admixture with non-Roma Europeans, appear also on the ADMIXTURE graphs. Supplementary Figure 1 shows the ADMIXTURE analysis results applying K = 3 to 10 hypothetical ancestral groups.

There are an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 Americans of Turkish descent living throughout the country, with the largest concentrations being in the New York/New Jersey area and in California.

Turks in Berlin (Turkish: Berlin'deki Türkler) are people of Turkish ethnicity living in Berlin where they form the largest ethnic minority group, and the largest Turkish community outside Turkey.