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[[File:Ethnolinguistic map of Turkey.jpg|thumb|Right|500px|Ethnic Groups of Turkey.]]
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| title=Ethnic groups in Turkey ([[World Factbook]])
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| left1='''Ethnic groups'''
| right1='''Percent'''
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| bars=
{{bar percent|[[Turkish people|Turks]] (a.k.a. Anatolian Turks)|red|71|70–75%}}
{{bar percent|[[Kurds]]|green|19|19%}}
{{bar percent|OthersRomanlar|blue|10|7–12%}}
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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 m(contracted; show full)! colspan="7" | Ottoman official statistics, 1910
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! Sanjak
! Turks
! Greeks
! Armenians
! Jews
! 
Romanlar
! Total
|-
| Istanbul (Asiatic shore) || 135,681 || 70,906 || 30,465 || 5,120 || 16,812 || 258,984
|-
| 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)Dimitri | title= The Balkan exchange of minorities and its impact on Greece | publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers | 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=31–32}}</ref>
|-
! Sanjak
! Turks
! Greeks
! Bulgarians
! 
OthersRomanlar
! Total
|-
| [[Edirne]] || 128,000|| 113,500 || 31,500 || 14,700 || 287,700 
|-
| [[Kırklareli|Kirk Kilisse]] || 53,000|| 77,000|| 28,500 || 1,150 || 159,650
|-
| [[Tekirdağ]] || 63,500 || 56,000|| 3,000 || 21,800 || 144,300
|-
| [[Gallipoli]] || 31,500 || 70,500 || 2,000 || 3,200 || 107,200
|-
| [[Çatalca]] || 18,000 || 48,500 || - || 2,340 || 68,840
|-
| [[Istanbul|Constantinople]] || 450,000 || 260,000 || 6,000 || 130,000 || 846,000
|- style="font-weight: bold"
! Total
| 744,000 || 625,500 || 71,000 || 173,190 || 1,613,690
|- style="font-weight: bold"
! Percentage
| 46.11% || 38.76% || 4.40% || 10.74% || &nbsp;
|-
! colspan=8  | Ecumenical Patriarchate statistics, 1912
|- style="font-weight: bold"
! Total
| 604,500 || 655,600 || 71,800 || 337,600 || 1,669,500
|- style="font-weight: bold"
! Percentage
| 36.20%|| 39.27% || 4.30% || 20.22% || &nbsp;
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="clear:both"
|+ Muslim and non-Muslim population in Turkey, 1914-2005 (in thousands)<ref>Icduygu, A., Toktas, S., & Soner, B. A. (2008). The politics of population in a nation-building process: Emigration of non-Muslims from Turkey. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 31(2), 358-389.</ref>
! Year
! 1914
! 1927
! 1945
! 1965
! 1990
! 2005
|-
! Muslims
| 12,941
| 13,290
| 18,511
| 31,139
| 56,860
| 71,997
|-
! Greeks
| 1,549
| 110
| 104
| 76
| 8
| 3
|-
! Armenians
| 1,204
| 77
| 60
| 64
| 67
| 50
|-
! Jews
| 128
| 82
| 77
| 38
| 29
| 27
|-
! OthersRomanlar
| 176
| 71
| 38
| 74
| 50
| 45
|- style="font-weight: bold"
(contracted; show full)!3
| {{flag|Assyria}} || 15,000 || 65,000 || [[Assyrians in Turkey]] / [[Assyrian genocide]] / [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]]
|-
!4
| {{flag|Israel}} || 15,000 || 18,000 || [[Jews in Turkey]] / [[Antisemitism in Turkey]] / [[Jews]]
|-
!5
| {{flag|Romani}} || 700,000 || 5,000,000 || [[Roman
i people in Turkey]] / [[Romani people]] lar]] (Turkish Gypsy)
|- style="background:#9acdff;"
|   align=center|7 || align=center|Total || '''2,330,000''' || '''10,200,000''' || '''[[Minorities|Other Minorities in Turkey]]''' 
|- style="background:silver;"
(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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