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This group is part of the larger Afghan diaspora around the world. According to latest reports, there are around 129,323 Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in Turkey. [1] [2] The government of Turkey claims that the total Afghan population in its country is around 300,000. [3] [4] At the same time others have mentioned a total of 420,000. [5]
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 ]
‘Long Live Racist Turkey’ spray-painted by unidentified people on the walls of an Armenian church in Istanbul [1]. In Turkey, xenophobia and discrimination are present in its society and throughout its history, including ethnic discrimination, religious discrimination and institutional racism against non-Muslim and non-Sunni minorities. [9]
Turkey has built a new concrete border wall in an effort to stop an influx of people from Afghanistan from crossing into the country, via Iran.The massive concrete structure-- in the eastern ...
Another group of Kyrgyz people in Turkey moved either to Istanbul city or returned to the Pamir region in Afghanistan. [1] In Bob Dylan 's autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan wrote that his paternal grandmother's maiden name was Kirghiz and her family originated from the Kağızman district of Kars Province in northeastern Turkey.
Afghans who survive the trek through Iran to the Turkish border, which can take weeks, will now be met with a wall of concrete slabs 10 feet high. Turkey builds a wall to keep out Afghan refugees ...
The concept of "minorities" has only been accepted by the Republic of Turkey as defined by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and thence strictly limited to Greeks, Jews and Armenians, only based on religious affiliation, excluding from the scope of the concept the ethnic identities of these minorities as of others such as the Kurds who make up 15% ...
Turkey's foreign minister has urged Chinese authorities to protect the cultural rights of minority Muslim Uyghurs in China's western Xinjiang province and allow them to “live their values,” a ...