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Birth statistics of Turkey from 2001 onward are from the Central Population Administrative System (MERNIS) database which is available online. [14] Birth statistics are updated continually because MERNIS has dynamic structure. [15] In 2011 Turkey had a crude birth rate of 16.7 per 1000, in 2010 17.2
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]
Assyrians have been present in Eastern Turkey since the Bronze Age (circa 2000 BCE). Kurds: approximately 2.5 million, mostly in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Turkey. Iraqi diaspora: mostly in the UK, Germany and Sweden, and can be of varying ethnic origin, including Arabs, Assyrians, Kurds, Armenians, Shabaks, Mandeans, Turks, Kawliya and Yezidis.
Ethnographic map of European Turkey from the late 19th century, showing the regions largely populated by Pomaks in brown. The mass turn to Islam in the Central Rhodope Mountains happened between the 16th and the 17th century.
A map showing the Seljuk Empire at its height, upon the death of Malik Shah I in 1092. The Seljuk Empire ( Persian : آل سلجوق , romanized : Āl-e Saljuq , lit. 'House of Saljuq') or the Great Seljuq Empire [ 229 ] [ 230 ] [ 231 ] was a high medieval Turko-Persian [ 232 ] Sunni Muslim empire , originating from the Qiniq branch of Oghuz ...
The location of Turkey. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Turkey: . Turkey or Türkiye, sovereign Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Southwest Asia and Thrace at the southeastern tip of the Balkan Peninsula in Southern Europe. [1]
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