Turkic peoples

Distribution of modern Turkic peoples and Turkic languages.

The Turkic peoples are a group thought to have originated between eastern Central Asia and Manchuria in northeastern China. Today they live mostly in Northern and Central Eurasia.

Turkic people speak languages belonging to the Turkic family. A Turkic person is called a Turk (e.g. the Kazakh Turks, the Kyrgyz Turks, etc., or in historical context: the Seljuq Turks, the Timurid Turks etc).

Haplogroup N is linked to the proto-Turkic people and their expansion from Northeast Asia.

There are Turks in many places. They dominate modern Central Asia and Siberia, there are also many in the Caucasus area, Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

There are also some in Pakistan and India, but are intermixed with the local people, like the Muhajir group in Pakistan.

Haplogroup Q is another haplogroup which is linked to the (later) Turkic expansion in Eurasia.

The Xinglongwa culture in Manchuria, in northeastern China, along the Liao river is the proposed homeland of the proto-Turks.^[1]^[2] From their they expanded into Siberia, the Altai mountains, see Altai people, and than Central Asia, were they replaced and partially assimilated to local population. They are an East Asian people.^[3]^[4]

Turkic family in Siberia

Minorities in Turkic countriesEdit

AzerbaijanEdit

KazakhstanEdit

KyrgyzstanEdit

TurkeyEdit

Number	Ethnic	Minimum Estimates	Maximum Estimates	Further information
Balkan
1	Albania	1,500,000	5,000,000	Albanians in Turkey / Albanians
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	100,000	2,000,000	Bosniaks in Turkey / Bosnians
3	Bulgaria	350,000	750,000	Bulgarians in Turkey / Pomaks in Turkey / Bulgarians
4	Greece	2,000	30,000	Greeks in Turkey / Pontic Greeks / Caucasus Greeks / Greeks
5	Serbia	15,000	60,000	Serbs in Turkey / Serbs
1	Total	2,000,000	7,900,000	Minorities in Turkey
Caucasus
1	Abkhazia	600,000	600,000	Abkhazians / Abkhaz language
2	Armenia	150,000	5,000,000	Armenians in Turkey / Hidden Armenians / Armenians
3	Chechnya	100,000	100,000	Chechens in Turkey / Chechens
4	Template:Country data Circassia	150,000	7,000,000	Circassians in Turkey / Circassians
5	Georgia	100,000	1,500,000	Georgians in Turkey / Georgians
6	Template:Country data Lazica	45,000	2,250,000	Laz people in Turkey / Laz people
2	Total	1,100,000	16,450,000	Peoples of the Caucasus in Turkey / Peoples of the Caucasus
Central Asia
1	Kazakhstan	10,000	10,000	Kazakhs
2	Kyrgyzstan	1,600	1,600	Kyrgyzs
3	Tajikistan	1,000	1,000	Tajiks
4	Turkmenistan	1,500	1,500	Turkmens
5	East Turkestan	50,000	50,000	Uyghurs
6	Uzbekistan	45,000	45,000	Uzbeks
3	Total	120,000	120,000	Central Asian peoples
Turkic peoples
1	Azerbaijan	530,000	800,000	Azerbaijanis in Turkey / Azerbaijanis
2	Crimea	150,000	6,000,000	Crimean Tatars in Turkey / Crimean Tatars
3	Template:Country data Karachay-Cherkessia	20,000	20,000	Karachays
4	Turkey	40,000	75,000	Meskhetian Turks
4	Total	740,000	6,895,000	Turkic peoples
Iranian peoples
1	Afghanistan	25,000	50,000	Afghans in Turkey / Afghans
2	Iran	500,000	650,000	Iranian diaspora / Persians
3	Kurdistan	13,000,000	23,000,000	Kurds in Turkey / Kurdish population / Turkish Kurdistan / Kurds
4	Kurdistan	1,000,000	3,000,000	Zaza Kurds / Zaza nationalism / Zaza language
5	Template:Country data North Ossetia-Alania	50,000	50,000	Ossetians in Turkey / Ossetians
6	Template:Country data Romani	700,000	5,000,000	Romani people in Turkey / Romani people
5	Total	15,300,000	31,750,000	Iranian peoples
European peoples
1	Netherlands	15,000	15,000	Dutch people
2	Germany	50,000	50,000	Germans in Turkey / Germans
3	Great Britain	35,000	35,000	Britons in Turkey / British people
4	Italy	35,000	35,000	Levantines in Turkey / Levantines (Latin Catholics)
5	Poland	4,000	4,000	Polish diaspora / Poles
6	Russia	50,000	50,000	Russians in Turkey / Russians
6	Total	190,000	190,000	European peoples
Other Minorities
1	Template:Country data African Union	100,000	100,000	Afro Turks / African diaspora / Africans
2	Arab League	1,500,000	5,000,000	Arabs in Turkey / Iraqis in Turkey / Arabs
3	Template:Country data Assyria	15,000	65,000	Assyrians in Turkey / Assyrian genocide / Assyrians
4	Israel	15,000	18,000	Jews in Turkey / Antisemitism in Turkey / Jews
7	Total	1,630,000	5,200,000	Other Minorities in Turkey
37 Group	Grand Total	21,080,000	68,505,000	Minorities in Turkey

TurkmenistanEdit

UzbekistanEdit

Past and future populationEdit

List of countries by past and future population provide 1950, 2000 and 2050 population while List of countries by future population (United Nations, medium fertility variant) provide 2100 population.

Rank	Country	Area	1950	2000	2050	2100
1	Turkey	783,562	21,122,000	65,970,000	89,291,000	87,983,000
2	Uzbekistan	447,400	6,293,000	25,042,000	35,117,000	32,077,000
3	Kazakhstan	2,724,900	6,694,000	15,688,000	22,238,000	24,712,000
4	Azerbaijan	86,600	2,886,000	8,464,000	11,210,000	9,636,000
5	Kyrgyzstan	199,900	1,739,000	4,938,000	7,064,000	9,046,000
6	Turkmenistan	488,100	1,205,000	4,386,000	6,608,000	5,606,000
Total		4,730,462	39,939,000	124,488,000	171,528,000	169,060,000

Land and water area (excluding Caspian Sea)Edit

This list includes dependent territories within their sovereign states (including uninhabited territories), but does not include claims on Antarctica. EEZ+TIA is exclusive economic zone (EEZ) plus total internal area (TIA) which includes land and internal waters.

Rank	Country	Area	EEZ	Shelf	EEZ+TIA
1	Turkey	783,562	261,654	56,093	1,045,216
2	Uzbekistan	447,400	0	0	447,400
3	Kazakhstan	2,724,900	0	0	2,724,900
4	Azerbaijan	86,600	0	0	86,600
5	Kyrgyzstan	199,900	0	0	199,900
6	Turkmenistan	488,100	0	0	488,100
Total		4,730,462	261,654	56,093	4,992,116

Related pagesEdit

Turkic languages

ReferencesEdit

↑ Robbeets. "Transeurasian ancestry: A case of farming language dispersal".
↑ Yunusbayev, Bayazit; Metspalu, Mait; Metspalu, Ene; Valeev, Albert; Litvinov, Sergei; Valiev, Ruslan; Akhmetova, Vita; Balanovska, Elena; Balanovsky, Oleg (2015-04-21). "The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia". PLoS Genetics. 11 (4). doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005068. ISSN 1553-7390. PMC 4405460. PMID 25898006.
↑ Heraclides, Alexandros; Bashiardes, Evy; Fernández-Domínguez, Eva; Bertoncini, Stefania; Chimonas, Marios; Christofi, Vasilis; King, Jonathan; Budowle, Bruce; Manoli, Panayiotis (2017-06-16). "Y-chromosomal analysis of Greek Cypriots reveals a primarily common pre-Ottoman paternal ancestry with Turkish Cypriots". PLOS ONE. 12 (6): e0179474. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0179474. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5473566. PMID 28622394.CS1 maint: PMC format (link)
↑ "Turkic peoples | History & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-12-17.

Other websitesEdit

[1] Robbeets. "Transeurasian ancestry: A case of farming language dispersal".

[2] Yunusbayev, Bayazit; Metspalu, Mait; Metspalu, Ene; Valeev, Albert; Litvinov, Sergei; Valiev, Ruslan; Akhmetova, Vita; Balanovska, Elena; Balanovsky, Oleg (2015-04-21). "The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia". PLoS Genetics. 11 (4). doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005068. ISSN 1553-7390. PMC 4405460. PMID 25898006.

[3] Heraclides, Alexandros; Bashiardes, Evy; Fernández-Domínguez, Eva; Bertoncini, Stefania; Chimonas, Marios; Christofi, Vasilis; King, Jonathan; Budowle, Bruce; Manoli, Panayiotis (2017-06-16). "Y-chromosomal analysis of Greek Cypriots reveals a primarily common pre-Ottoman paternal ancestry with Turkish Cypriots". PLOS ONE. 12 (6): e0179474. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0179474. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5473566. PMID 28622394.CS1 maint: PMC format (link)

[4] "Turkic peoples | History & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-12-17.

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