43 Facts About Turkish people

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Mass immigration due to fleeing ethnic cleansing after the persecution of Muslims during Ottoman contraction has led to mass migrations from the 19th century onward; these Turkish people communities have all contributed to the formation of a Turkish people diaspora outside the former Ottoman lands.

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Further, "the natural and historical facts which effected the establishment of the Turkish people nation" were " unity in political existence, unity in language, unity in homeland, unity in race and origin, to be historically related and to be morally related".

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The Turkish people identity became the unifying force when, in 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne was signed and the newly founded Republic of Turkey was formally established.

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Turkish people Cypriots are the ethnic Turks whose Ottoman Turkish people forebears colonized the island of Cyprus in 1571.

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About 30,000 Turkish people soldiers were given land once they settled in Cyprus, which bequeathed a significant Turkish people community.

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Turkish people Albanians are one of the smallest Turkish people communities in the Balkans.

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Turkish people Bosnians have lived in the region since the Ottoman rule of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Turkish people Croatians began to settle in the region during the various Croatian–Ottoman wars.

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Turkish people Kosovars are the third largest ethnic minority in Kosovo.

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Historically, Turkish people Romanians formed a majority in other regions, such as the island of Ada Kaleh which was destroyed and flooded by the Romanian government for the construction of the Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station.

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Turkish people Serbians have lived in Serbia since the Ottoman conquests in the region.

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Turkish people Azerbaijanis began to settle in the region during the Ottoman rule, which lasted between 1578 and 1603.

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Turkish people Abkhazians began to live in Abkhazia during the sixteenth century under Ottoman rule.

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Migrations to Turkey continued after the Russo-Turkish people War followed by the Bolshevik Revolution, and then after Georgia was incorporated into the Soviet Union.

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Yet, the largest wave of Turkish people migrations occurred under the four centuries of Ottoman rule.

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Turkish people Egyptians are mostly the descendants of Turkish people settlers who arrived during the Ottoman rule of Egypt.

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The Turkish people Tunisians began to settle in the region in 1534, with about 10,000 Turkish people soldiers, when the Ottoman Empire answered the calls of Tunisia's inhabitants who sought the help of the Turks due to fears that the Spanish would invade the country.

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Yet, there are significant Turkish people communities living in Austria, the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Scandinavian countries, and the Post-Soviet states.

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However, the actual number of Turkish people Americans is considerably larger with most choosing not to declare their ethnicity.

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20.

The largest concentration of Turkish people Americans are in New York City, and Rochester, New York; Washington, DC ; and Detroit, Michigan.

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21.

Historically, Ottoman Turkish people was the official language and lingua franca throughout the Ottoman territories and the Ottoman Turkish people alphabet used the Perso-Arabic script.

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However, Turkish people intellectuals sought to simplify the written language during the rise of Turkish people nationalism in the nineteenth century.

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23.

Today, the modern Turkish people language is used as the official language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus.

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In Kosovo, Turkish people is recognized as an official language in the municipalities of Prizren, Mamusa, Gjilan, Mitrovica, Pristina, and Vucitrn, whilst elsewhere in the country it is recognized as a minority language.

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In several countries, Turkish people is officially recognized as a minority language only, including in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Romania.

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26.

Various variants of Turkish people are used by millions of Turkish people immigrants and their descendants in Western Europe there is no official recognition in these countries.

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Cypriot Turkish people dialect maintained features of the respective local varieties of the Ottoman settlers who mostly came from the Konya-Antalya-Adana region; furthermore, Cypriot Turkish people was influenced by Cypriot Greek.

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The Cypriot Turkish people dialect is being exposed to increasing standard Turkish people through immigration from Turkey, new mass media, and new educational institutions.

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29.

Iraqi Turkish people dialects have similarities with certain Southeastern Anatolian dialects around the region of Urfa and Diyarbakir.

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Historically, Iraqi Turkish people was influenced by Ottoman Turkish people and neighboring Azerbaijani Turkic.

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31.

However, Istanbul Turkish people is a prestige language which exerts a profound influence on their dialects.

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32.

Meskhetian Turkish people dialect was originally spoken in Georgia until the Turkish people Meskhetian community were forcefully deported and then dispersed throughout Turkey, Russia, Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and the United States.

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The Meskhetian Turkish people dialect has borrowed from other languages, which the Meskhetian Turks have been in contact with during the Russian and Soviet rule.

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In general, "Turkish people Islam" is considered to be "more moderate and pluralistic" than in other Middle Eastern-Islamic societies.

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35.

For example, in Cyprus, the Turkish people Cypriots are generally very secular and only attend mosques on special occasions.

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Similarly, in other urban areas of the Levant, such as in Iraq, the Turkish people minority are mainly secular, having internalized the secularist interpretation of state–religion affairs practiced in the Republic of Turkey since its foundation in 1923.

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In North Africa, the Turkish people minorities have traditionally differentiated themselves from the Arab-Berber population who follow the Maliki school; this is because the Turks have continued to follow the teaching of the Hanafi school which was brought to the region by their ancestors during the Ottoman rule.

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Turkish people culture is a product of efforts to be a "modern" Western state, while maintaining traditional religious and historical values.

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Traditional Turkish people music include Turkish people folk music, Fasil and Ottoman classical music that originates from the Ottoman court.

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Data from ancient DNA – covering the Paleolithic, the Neolithic, and the Bronze Age periods – showed that Western Asian genomes, including Turkish people ones, have been greatly influenced by early agricultural populations in the area; later population movements, such as those of Turkic speakers, contributed.

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Third, it is the history of the Ottoman Empire, a vast, cosmopolitan, pan-Islamic state that developed from a small Turkish people amirate in Anatolia and that for centuries was a world power.

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The Turkish people language was imposed on a predominantly lndo-European-speaking population, and genetically there is very little difference between Turkey and the neighboring countries.

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The number of Turkish people invaders was probably rather small and was genetically diluted by the large number of aborigines.

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