Turkish people
The Turkish people (Turkish: Türkler), or Turks, are the world's largest Turkic ethnic group; they speak different dialects of the Turkish language and is populated in Türkiye and Northern Cyprus, and the Balkans.
Türkler | |
|---|---|
 Map of the Turkish people in the world | |
| Total population | |
| c. 80 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Turkey 60,000,000–65,000,000[1][2]  Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 315,000[3] |
Culture
Religion
Turkish people are predominantly Sunni Muslims, the largest branch of Islam. Many Turks are practising its Hanafi denomination. The most followed branch after Sunnism is Alevism-Bektashism, few belive in Tengrism.
Traditions
Turkish traditions can be found in Turkey but can also be found in other Turkic countries. This includes Turkish Oil Wrestling, Sünnet-Partys of Boys, Belly dance, Karakucak Guresh, Camel wrestling etc.
Diaspora
They are a big Turkish diaspora. There are also large Turkish minorities in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Arab world.
Turkish people are the largest minority group in Bulgaria, the second largest minority group in Iraq, Libya, North Macedonia, and Syria. There are large Turkish communities in the Western Thrace region of Greece, the Dobruja region of Romania, the Akkar region in Lebanon. Turkish people are also the largest ethnic minority group in Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, and especially in Germany, see Turks in Germany.
Turkish People Media
The Sogdian trader An Jia (right) brokering an alliance with Turks (left). 579 CE, Tomb of An Jia, Xi’an, China.
A dignitary in Turkic dress: long braids, fur hat, boots, close-fitting coat. He may be an amir.
A map of the independent beyliks in Anatolia during the early 1300s.
West Thrace Republic, Turks in Kardzali
The loss of almost all Ottoman territories during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, in 1923, produced waves of Turkish refugees, who were known as "Muhacirs", who fled from hostile regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Aegean islands, the island of Cyprus, the Sanjak of Alexandretta, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union to migrate to Anatolia and Eastern Thrace.
People on the Anafartalar Boulevard, Ankara in the 1950s
Turkish people at the 2007 Republic Protests in the capital city of Ankara supporting the principle of state secularism.
Percentage of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria by province (2011)
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Turkish Meskhetians wearing T-shirts that read: 14 November 1944, We have not forgotten the deportation.
A Turkish Kosovar speaking standard Turkish.
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References
- ↑ Garibova, Jala (2011), "A Pan-Turkic Dream: Language Unification of Turks", in Fishman, Joshua; Garcia, Ofelia (eds.), Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts, Oxford University Press, p. 268, ISBN 9780199837991,
Approximately 200 million people,... speak nearly 40 Turkic languages and dialects. Türkiye is the largest Turkic state, with about 60 million ethnic Turks living in its territories.
- ↑ Hobbs, Joseph J. (2017), Fundamentals of World Regional Geography, Cengage, p. 223, ISBN 9781305854956,
The greatest are the 65 million Turks of Turkey, who speak Turkish, a Turkic language...
- ↑ "KKTC 2011 NÜFUS VE KONUT SAYIMI" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2014.