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[[File:Ethnolinguistic map of Turkey.jpg|thumb|Right|500px|Ethnic Groups of Turkey.]]
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|   align=center|7 || align=center|Total || '''2,330,000''' || '''10,200,000''' || '''[[Minorities|Other Minorities in Turkey]]''' 
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|   align=center|'''37 Group''' || align=center|'''Grand Total''' || '''21,080,000''' || '''68,505,000''' || '''
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== Ethnic minorities ==
=== Balkan peoples ===
{{main article|Balkan peoples}}
==== Albanians ====
(contracted; show full) |publisher=''Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review'' |accessdate=2011-03-23 |archivedate=2011-03-23 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5xPCtaAXt?url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/h.php?news=trial-sheds-light-on-shades-of-turkey-2008-06-10 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> According to ''[[Milliyet]]'' and ''[[Turkish Daily News]]'' reports, the number of Pomaks along with the Turkified Pomaks in the country is about 600,000.<ref name=
"hurriyet"/><ref name= "Milliyet-Türkiye'deki Kürtlerin sayısı">
{{cite web|url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/default.aspx?aType=SonDakika&Kategori=yasam&ArticleID=873452&Date=07.06.2008&ver=16|title=Milliyet - Turkified Pomaks in Turkey|publisher=www.milliyet.com.tr|accessdate=2011-02-08|last=|first=|language=tr}}</ref><ref name="hurriyet"/> According to the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Bulgarian [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christian]] community in Turkey stands at 500 members.<ref>[http://www.mfa.bg/bg/pages/view/5360 "Българската общност в Република Турция "]</ref>

==== Greeks ====
{{Main article|Greeks in Turkey}} 
{{Main article|Pontic Greeks}} 
{{Further information|Pontus (region)}}
{{Further information|Greek genocide}}
[[File:Pontus.png|thumb|right|300px|The Pontus region]]
(contracted; show full)ago Press|isbn=978-0-226-29776-7|pages=183–}}</ref><ref name="AtabakiO'Kane1998">{{cite book|author1=Touraj Atabaki|author2=John O'Kane|title=Post-Soviet Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KwZpAAAAMAAJ&q=central+asian+features+turkish+popular+blood&dq=central+asian+features+turkish+popular+blood&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjussOhne3OAhWHqR4KHbaoDXAQ6AEIJDAB|date=15 October 1998|publisher=I. B. Tauris|isbn=978-1-86064-327-9|page=305}}</ref>
  

A community of Uyghurs live in Istanbul.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lund |first1=Aron |title=PT: There is a TIP faction in Idleb that seems descended from Istanbul diaspora. So while this is telling of Hershian sourcing and I agree > |url=https://twitter.com/aronlund/status/681549679864213504 |website=aronlund |language=en |date=28 December 2015}}</ref> Tuzla and Zeytinburnu mosques are used by the Uyghurs in Istanbul.<ref name="Starr2015">{{cite book|author=S. Frederick Starr|ti(contracted; show full)astern Anatolia. The Ossetians in Turkey are divided into three major groups, depending on their history of immigration and ensuing events: those living in [[Kars]] (Sarıkamış) and [[Erzurum]], those in [[Sivas]], [[Tokat]] and [[Yozgat]] and those in [[Muş]] and [[Bitlis]].<ref>[http://www.worldbulletin.net/author_article_print.php?id=1804]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==== Persians ====
{{Main article|Iranian diaspora}}
500,000 to 650,000.
  <ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunter |first1=Shireen |title=Iran's Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era: Resisting the New International Order |date=2010 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313381942 |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=wLtA_J3VUt4C&pg=PA160&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Project |first1=Joshua |title=Persian in Turkey |url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/14371/TU |website=joshuaproject.net |language=en}}</r(contracted; show full)

Syrians in Turkey include migrants from [[Syria]] to [[Turkey]], as well as their descendants. The number of Syrians in Turkey is estimated at over 3.58 million people as of April 2018
,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria/location/113|title=Situation Syria Regional Refugee Response|website=data2.unhcr.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-13}}</ref>, and consists mainly of [[refugees of the Syrian Civil War]].

==== Assyrians ====
{{Main article|Assyrians in Turkey}}
{{Further information|Assyrian genocide}}
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'''Brazilians in Turkey''' are one of the very small Brazilian communities outside [[Brazil]], numbering about 275. Majority of Brazilians in Turkey works in embassies and/or consulates in [[Istanbul]] and [[Ankara]], with a small number works in private companies in other metropolitan cities.<ref>[http://istambul.itamaraty.gov.br/en_US Link to Brazilian consulate in Istanbul]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
  <ref>[http://ancara.itamaraty.gov.br Link to Brazilian embassy in Ankara]</ref>

==== Canadians ====
{{Main article|Canadians in Turkey}}
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Most Yazidis left the country and went abroad in the 1980s and 1990s, mostly to Germany and other European countries where they got asylum due to the persecution as an ethnic and religious minority in Turkey. The area they resided was in the south eastern area of Turkey, an area that had/has heavy [[Turkish-PKK conflict|PKK fighting]]. Now a few hundred Yazidi are believed to be left in Turkey.

==
 See also Related Pages==
{{columns|width=auto
|col1 =
* [[Demographics of Turkey]]
* [[Languages of Turkey]]
* [[Geographical name changes in Turkey]]
* [[Human rights in Turkey]]
* [[Turkish Kurdistan]]
* [[Western Armenia]]
* [[Turkish minorities in the former Ottoman Empire]]
* [[Black people#Balkans|Black people in the Ottoman Empire]]
* [[Turks in the former Soviet Union]]
* [[Black people#Turkey|Black people in Turkey]]
|col2 =
* [[Turkish nationalism]]
* [[Racism in Turkey]]
* [[Turkification]]
* [[Surname Law]]
* [[Anti-Armenian sentiment]]
* [[Armenian Genocide]]
* [[Greek genocide]]
* [[Assyrian genocide]]
* [[Dersim rebellion]]
* [[Yörüks]]
}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

{{Demographics of Turkey}}
{{Europe topic|Ethnic minorities in}}
{{Asia topic|Ethnic minorities in}}

[[Category:Ethnic groups in Turkey]]
[[Category:Ethnic minorities]]