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[[File:Ethnolinguistic map of Turkey.jpg|thumb|Right|500px|Ethnic Groups of Turkey.]]
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{{bar percent|[[Kurds]]|green|19|19%}}
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'''Minorities in Turkey''' form a substantial part of the country's population, with at least an estimated 30% of the populace belonging to an ethnic minority. While the [[Republic of Turkey]], following the 1923 [[Treaty of Lausanne]], recognizes [[Armenians]], [[Greeks]] and [[Jews]] as [[Ethnic minority|ethnic minorities]], this legal status is not granted to Muslim minorities, such as the [[Kurds]], which constitute the largest minority by a wide margin (13–18%), nor any of the other minorities in the country. The amount of ethnic minorities is suspected to be underestimated by the Turkish government. Ethnic [[Albanians]], [[Pontic Greeks]], [[Patriyotlar]], [[Kurds]], [[Arabs]], [[Bosniaks]], [[Circassians]] and [[Chechen people]] and the [[Romanlar]] are usually considered Turkish under ethnic Turkish law ([[Surname Law|Ethnic Turkish Law]]) about ther Muslim faith.

Many of the minorities (including the Albanians, Bosnians, Crimean Tatars, and various peoples from the Caucasus, as well as some of the Turks themselves) are descendants of Muslims (''[[Muhacir|muhajirs]]'') who were expelled from the lands lost by the shrinking [[Ottoman Empire]], but they have assimilated into and intermarried with the majority Turkish population and have adopted the Turkish language and way of life, though this does not make them ethnic Turks.

Although many minorities have no official recognition, state-run [[Turkish Radio and Television Corporation|TRT]] television and radio broadcasts minority language programs and elementary schools offer minority language classes.{{cn|date=May 2018}}
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== Tables ==
{| class="wikitable" style="clear:both"
|+ Distribution of nationalities in Anatolia<ref>{{cite book | last= Pentzopoulos | first = Dimitri | title = The Balkan exchange of minorities and its impact on Greece | publisher = C Hurst & Co | year=2002| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PDc-WW6YhqEC&pg=PA28&dq=%22northern+epirus%22%2Bflorence&hl=el&ei=EJcnTZu-L8eF5Abl7uzXCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEsQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22northern%20epirus%22%2Bflorence&f=false | isbn= 978-1-85065-702-6 |pages=29–30}}</ref>
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! colspan="7" | Ottoman official statistics, 1910
|-
! Sanjak
! Turks
! Greeks
! Armenians
! Jews
! Others
! Total
|-
| Istanbul (Asiatic shore) || 135,681 || 70,906 || 30,465 || 5,120 || 16,812 || 258,984
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| İzmit || 184,960|| 78,564 || 50,935 || 2,180 || 1,435 || 318,074
|-
| Aidin (İzmir) || 974,225 || 629,002 || 17,247 || 24,361 || 58,076 || 1,702,911
(contracted; show full)*{{citeweb|url=http://turkishpolicy.com/files/articlepdf/freedom-of-religion-and-non-muslim-minorities-in-turkey-winter-2015-en.pdf|title=Freedom of religion and non-Muslim minorities in Turkey|work=Beylunioğlu, Anna Maria|publisher=Turkish Policy Quarterly 13.4 (2015): 139-147.}}

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[[Category:Ethnic groups in Turkey]]
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