Where are the Turks from?

There are two major ethnic groups in Turkey, Turks account for more than 80% of the national population, Kurds account for about 15% of the national population, and there are some ethnic minorities.

1. Turks are the main ethnic groups in modern Turkey. They all moved from Central Asia to Asia Minor after 1 1 century. Most of them believe in Sunni Islam and a few believe in Alevi, a branch of Shia Islam.

Turks are a hybrid of Turks and primitive inhabitants of the Mediterranean, belonging to European race. They use Turkish, belonging to the Turkic family of Altai language family and oguz language family. The total population of Turkey is 80,745,020 (2065,438+07).

2. Kurds are the most populous minority in Turkey, with 6.5438+0.4 million people, of whom about 7 million people live in large areas in the east and southeast. Kurds in Turkey are mostly Muslims, which are quite different from Turks in language, culture and family traditions.

Kurds are nomadic people in the Kurdistan region of West Asia, belonging to the Mediterranean Europa. Mainly distributed in zagros mountains and Jinniu Mountains.

3. Other ethnic minorities. There are about 2 million people in Celka, about 500,000 Grigia, about 500,000 Tatars, about 65,438+10,000 Armenians and other ethnic minorities.

4. In terms of religious belief, 99% of the residents believe in Islam, and most of them are Sunnis. 1% of the population is Armenian Orthodox Church, Greek Orthodox Church, Judaism, Catholicism, etc.

5. In terms of language, Turkish is the official language, as well as Kurdish, Zazazi, Azerbaijani and Kabardino.

Extended data

The main ethnic group in Turkey is Turks, and the language they use is Turkish. Most of their lineages are Anatolian, Greek, Caucasian, Anatolian Kurd, and the lineages of ancient Hittites, Lydians and later Balkan residents.

Turks were originally mixed with Byzantine Greeks. 107 1 year later, the Turks began to establish their own country in Anatolia, and then a large number of Uyghurs entered the Ilka Nath era in Mongolia, which was the era when the nation really laid the foundation.

Turks belong to the Europa race, and are the mixed-race descendants of Mediterranean aborigines, Eastern Romans and Turks. They use Turkish, belonging to the Ugus branch of the Turkic language family of Altai language family in Europe. 1928 changed to Latin letters. Believe in Islam, mostly Sunnis.

In the 7th century, after the Tang Dynasty, the West Turkistan perished, among which the Seljuks in Oguz migrated from Central Asia to West Asia and Europe, and merged with the local Persians. Osman I established the Ottoman Empire in 1299. It reached its peak in16th century and17th century, especially in the period of Suleiman I, and the ruling area spanned three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa.

Sultan, the monarch of the Ottoman Empire, regarded himself as the master of the world and inherited the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire and Islamic culture, so the eastern and western civilizations merged into it.

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