Turkish people

Turks

Türkler
Map of the Turkish people in the world
Total population
c. 80 million
Regions with significant populations
Turkey  60,000,000–65,000,000[1][2]  Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus  315,000[3]
Germany	3,000,000 to over 7,000,000[4][5][6][7]
Iraq	3,000,000–5,000,000[48][49][50]
United States	1,000,000–3,000,000[8][9][10][11]
Syria	1,000,000–1,700,000g[51][52]
Libya	1,000,000–1,400,000h[53][54]
Netherlands	500,000 to over 2,000,000[12][13][14][15]
France	over 1,000,000[16][17][18
Bulgaria	588,318–800,000[62][63][64]

The Turkish people (Turkish: Türkler), or Turks, are the world's largest Turkic ethnic group; they speak different dialects of the Turkish language and live mainly in Turkey and Cyprus. There are Turkish communities in the Balkans as well.

1. ↑ Garibova, Jala (2011), "A Pan-Turkic Dream: Language Unification of Turks", in Fishman, Joshua; Garcia, Ofelia (eds.), Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts, Oxford University Press, p. 268, ISBN 9780199837991, Approximately 200 million people,... speak nearly 40 Turkic languages and dialects. Türkiye is the largest Turkic state, with about 60 million ethnic Turks living in its territories.
2. ↑ Hobbs, Joseph J. (2017), Fundamentals of World Regional Geography, Cengage, p. 223, ISBN 9781305854956, The greatest are the 65 million Turks of Turkey, who speak Turkish, a Turkic language...
3. ↑ "KKTC 2011 NÜFUS VE KONUT SAYIMI" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2014.