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The term Turkish diaspora refers to the estimated population of Turkish people in the world living outside of Turkey. Note that this differs from the Turkic peoples living mostly in Northern and Central Asia, who are distinct ethnic groups, speaking languages belonging to the Turkic language family.[1]

Turkish diaspora

Rank Country Capital Number of ethnic Turks Date of reference More information, remarks
-  Turkey Ankara 55,484,000[2]–57,680,000[3][4] 2007 Turkish people
Note: Turkey's total population: 72,100,000 (2005)[4]
1  Germany Berlin 2,180,000[5][6] – 2,637,000 [7] 2003 – 2006 Turks in Germany
2  France Paris 370,000[7] 2003 Turks in France
3  Netherlands Amsterdam 368,600[8] 2007 Turks in the Netherlands
4  Austria Vienna 200,000[7] 2003 Turks in Austria
5  Uzbekistan
 Tajikistan
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan 		Tashkent
Dushanbe
Astana
Bishkek 		197,000[9] 1979 Meskhetian Turks
6  Northern Cyprus Nicosia 150,000[10] – 177,000[9] 1995 - 2002 Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Cypriot diaspora
7  United States Washington, D.C. 164,945[11] 2005 Turks in the United States
8  Belgium Brussels 110.000[7] 2003 Turks in Belgium
9  Greece Athens 20,000[10] – 28,380[9] 2002 Muslam minority of Western Thrace (excluding Pomax)
10  Russia Moscow 92,415[12] 2002 Turks in Russia
11   Switzerland Berne 90,000[7] 2003
12  Macedonia Skopje 77,959[13] - 200,000[9] 2002 Turks in Macedonia
13  United Kingdom London 70,000[7] – 100,000[14] 2003 Turks in the United Kingdom
14  Australia Canberra 54,595[15] 2001 Turks in Australia
15  Denmark Copenhagen 53,000[7] 2003 Turks in Denmark
16  Kosovo (Serbia) Priština 50,000[16] [17] 1999 (est.) Turks in Kosovo
17  Sweden Stockholm 37,000[7] 2003 Turks in Sweden
18  Romania Bucharest 28,714[9] – 32,596[18] 2002 Turks of Romania
19  Canada Ottawa 24,910[19] 2001
20  Azerbaijan Baku 18,000[20] 1991
22  Iran Tehran 15,000[citation needed] est. Not including the Iranian Azeris, Iranian Turkmen, and Qashqai
23  Norway Oslo 14,084[21] 2006 Turks in Norway
24  Iraq Baghdad 12,000 – 20,000[citation needed] est. Not including the Iraqi Turkmen
25  Italy Rome 11,077[22] 2004
26  Syria Damascus 10,000[citation needed] est. Not including the Syrian Turkmen
27  Japan Tokyo 1,194[23] 2006 Turks in Japan
28  Liechtenstein Vaduz 884[citation needed]
29  Croatia Zagreb 300[citation needed]
30  Slovenia Ljubljana 259[citation needed]
Total (high) 5,957,260 63,637,260 (including Turkey)
Total (low) 5,102,630 60,586,630 (including Turkey)

See also

References

  1. ^ American Heritage Dictionary (2000). "The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition - "Turk"". Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
  2. ^ Milliyet (2007-03-22). "Güncel: 55 milyon kişi 'etnik olarak' Türk ("Highlight: 55 million people of Turkish ethnicity")" (HTML) (in Turkish). Retrieved 2007-03-28.
  3. ^ "The World Factbook" (HTML). United States Central Intelligence Agency. 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-28.
  4. ^ a b World Bank (2005). "Data and Statistics for Turkey" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-05-04.
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office of Germany (2006-03-28). "Zahl der Ausländer in Deutschland nahezu unverändert (The number of foreigners in Germany almost unchanged)" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-02-25.
  6. ^ Rath, Christian (2005-02-08). "Viele Türken nicht mehr Deutsche (Many Turks no more German citizens)" (HTML). Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. p. 1. Retrieved 2007-02-25. {{cite news}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Center for Studies on Turkey, University of Essen (2003). "The European Turks: Gross Domestic Product, Working Population, Entrepreneurs and Household Data" (PDF). Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association. Retrieved 2007-01-06. Table 4: Turkish Population and Naturalised Turks in the EU, 2002, on page 8 {{cite web}}: External link in |author= (help)
  8. ^ Statistics Netherlands (2007). "CBS StatLine. Population by origin and generation; Origin: Turkey" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-08-05.
  9. ^ a b c d e Cite error: The named reference Ethnologue report for Turkish was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ a b Katzner, Kenneth (2002). Languages of the World, Third Edition. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0415250047. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  11. ^ United States Census Bureau (2005). "2005 American Community Survey, Population Group: Turkish (434)" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-08-03.
  12. ^ Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Centre for Russian Studies (2002). "Ethnic Groups in Russia" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |author= (help)
  13. ^ State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia (May 2005). "Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Macedonia, 2002" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-01-07. {{cite web}}: External link in |author= (help)
  14. ^ Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in London (2007). "Turks in Britain" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-07-09. {{cite web}}: External link in |author= (help)
  15. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (2004-12-05). "2001 Census, 2054.0 Australian Census Analytic Program: Australians' Ancestries" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-01-06.
  16. ^ Rozen, Laura (1999-03-31). "Beginner's guide to the Balkans" (HTML). Salon.com News. p. 2. Retrieved 2006-01-07. {{cite news}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ Goltz, Thomas (1999-05-20). "Minority Within a Minority - For Ethnic Turks, Serbian War is Another Chapter in a 600 Year Old Story" (HTML). Pacific News Service. Retrieved 2006-01-07. {{cite news}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  18. ^ National Institute of Statistics of Romania (March 2002). "Census of Population and Dwellings, March 18 - 27, 2002" (DOC). Retrieved 2007-01-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |author= (help)
  19. ^ Statistics Canada (2001-05-15). "2001 Census, Topic-based Tabulations, Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-01-06.
  20. ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Report for Azerbaijan" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-02-26. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Statistics Norway (2006-05-18). "Immigrant population and persons with other immigrant background, by country background and sex. 1 January 2006 (Corrected 18 May 2006)" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-01-07.
  22. ^ Istat - Italian National Institute of Statistics (2004-12-31). "Foreigner Citizens. Demographic Balance for the year 2004 and Resident Population on 31st December" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-01-07.
  23. ^ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (June 2006). "Japan-Turkey Relations" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-01-06.

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