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| Total population |
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| 500,000[1] - 1,600,000[2] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Adana, Batman, Bitlis, Gaziantep, Hatay, Istanbul, Mardin, Mersin, Muş, Siirt, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak |
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Mainly Islam (Sunnis and Alawites) |
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Arabs comprise the third largest ethnic group in Turkey.[4] (Arabic: العرب في تركيا, Turkish: Türkiye Arapları) are a Semitic people.
Arabs in Turkey are mostly Muslims living along the southeastern border with Syria and Iraq in the provinces such as Batman, Bitlis, Gaziantep, Hatay, Mardin, Muş, Siirt, Şırnak and Şanlıurfa. The Arabs in eastern part of the border consist of many Bedouin tribes in addition to other Arabs who settled there before Turkic tribes came to Anatolia from Central Asia in the 11th century. Many of these Arabs have blood ties to Arabs of living in Syria, especially in the city of Ar Raqqah. The Arab society in Turkey is well integrated into the Turkish population. The majority of Arabic people who live in Turkey don't have knowledge of Arabic, especially the new generation.
The Treaty of Lausanne ceded to Turkey large areas that belonged to Ottoman Syria, especially within Aleppo Vilayet.[5] Those areas were mostly inhabited by Arabs, who felt isolated within the new border.
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Number of Turkish Arabs [link]
An American source from 1995 estimates the number to be between 800,000 and 1 million.[6] Some other estimates put the percentage of Arabs in Turkey at less than 2%[7] and their numbers, at about 1.6 million.[2] According to a study based on a large survey in 2006, 0.7% of the total population in Turkey are ethnically Arab, roughly 500 thousand people among 73 millions.[8]
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References [link]
- ^ "toplumsal yapı araştırması 2006". KONDA Research and Consultancy. 2006. pp. 15-16. https://www.konda.com.tr/tr/raporlar/2006_09_KONDA_Toplumsal_Yapi.pdf. Retrieved May 10, 2012. (Turkish)
- ^ a b The Joshua Project: Ethnic People Groups of Turkey
- ^ Christen in der islamischen Welt – Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ 26/2008)
- ^ People and Society in Turkey. Accessed on 9 May 2012
- ^ Translation of the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). The original text was in French.
- ^ Helen Chapin Metz, ed. Turkey: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1995.
- ^ People and Society in Turkey. Accessed on 9 May 2012
- ^ "toplumsal yapı araştırması 2006". KONDA Research and Consultancy. 2006. pp. 15-16. https://www.konda.com.tr/tr/raporlar/2006_09_KONDA_Toplumsal_Yapi.pdf. Retrieved May 10, 2012. (Turkish)
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Turkey
Coordinates: 39°N 35°E / 39°N 35°E
Turkey (
i/ˈtɜːrki/; Turkish: Türkiye [ˈtyɾcije]), officially the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: 
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ), is a parliamentary republic in Eurasia, largely located in Western Asia, with the smaller portion of Eastern Thrace in Southeast Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Syria and Iraq to the south; Iran, Armenia, and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the east; Georgia to the northeast; Bulgaria to the northwest; and Greece to the west. The Black Sea is to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. The Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia. Turkey's location at the crossroads of Europe and Asia makes it a country of significant geostrategic importance.
Turkey has been inhabited since the paleolithic age, including various ancient Anatolian civilizations, Aeolian, Dorian and Ionian Greeks, Thracians, Armenians, and Assyrians. After Alexander the Great's conquest, the area was Hellenized, a process which continued under the Roman Empire and its transition into the Byzantine Empire. The Seljuk Turks began migrating into the area in the 11th century, starting the process of Turkification, which was greatly accelerated by the Seljuk victory over the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, upon which it disintegrated into several small Turkish beyliks.
Turkey (bird)
The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, which is native to the Americas. One species, Meleagris gallopavo (commonly known as the domestic turkey or wild turkey), is native to the forests of North America, mainly Mexico and the United States. The other living species is Meleagris ocellata or the ocellated turkey, native to the forests of the Yucatán Peninsula. Males of both turkey species have a distinctive fleshy wattle or protuberance that hangs from the top of the beak (called a snood). They are among the largest birds in their ranges. As in many galliformes, the male is larger and much more colorful than the female.
Taxonomy
Turkeys are classed in the family of Phasianidae (pheasants, partridges, francolins, junglefowl, grouse and relatives) in the taxonomic order of Galliformes. The genus Meleagris is the only genus in the subfamily Meleagridinae, formerly known as the family Meleagrididae, but now subsumed within the family Phasianidae.
History and naming
When Europeans first encountered turkeys in America, they incorrectly identified the birds as a type of guineafowl – i.e., as members of a group of birds which were thought to typically come from the country of Turkey. The name of the North American bird thus became "turkey fowl", which was then shortened to just "turkey". In 1550, the English navigator William Strickland, who had introduced the turkey into England, was granted a coat of arms including a "turkey-cock in his pride proper".
Turkish wine
Turkish wine is wine made in the transcontinental Eurasian country Turkey. The Caucasus region, where Georgia and Iran are located, played a pivotal role in the early history of wine and is likely to have been one of the earliest wine-producing regions of the world.
Ampelographers estimate that Turkey is home to between 600–1200 indigenous varieties of Vitis vinifera (the European grapevine), though less than 60 of these are grown commercially. With over 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km2) planted under vine, Turkey is the world's fourth-leading producer of grapes.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's first president, established the country's first commercial winery in 1925. According to the OIV, the total wine production in 2005 was 287,000 hl. In the first half of 2009, wine consumption in Turkey reached 20,906,762 litres.
