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According to the World Factbook, Kurdish people make up 18% of Turkey's population (about 14 million, out of 77.8 million people). [11] 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 ...
One Western source estimates that up to 25% of the Turkish population is Kurdish (approximately 18–19 million people). [57] Kurdish sources claim there are as many as 20 or 25 million Kurds in Turkey. [176]
Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. ' land of the Kurds '; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] ⓘ), [5] or Greater Kurdistan, [6] [7] is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population [8] and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. [9]
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]
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups.Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing (clothing) style and ...
In 1995, the Kurdish Human Rights Watch estimated that the Kurds in Istanbul numbered ca. 2 million. [6] In 1996, Servet Mutlu estimated that the Kurds were 8.16% (594,000) of Istanbul instead of the often stated 1.5 million. [7] In 1998, the German Foreign Ministry stated that there were 3 million Kurds in Istanbul. [7]
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
According to a 2011 Statistics Canada household survey, there were 11,685 people of Kurdish ethnic background living in Canada, [25] and according to the 2011 Census, more than 10,000 Canadians spoke Kurdish language. [26]