Turks in Azerbaijan

Turks in Azerbaijan
Total population
38,000 (2009 census)[1]

19,000 Ottoman Turkish descendants (not including the Meskhetian Turks or Turkish citizens)[2]

100,000 Meskhetian Turks (1999 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimate)[3]

90,000 to 110,000 Meskhetian Turks (other estimates)[4][5][6][7]

plus 17,577 Turkish citizens[8]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Religion

Turks in Azerbaijan, or Turkish Azerbaijanis, (Turkish: Azerbaycan'daki Türkler) refers to ethnic Turkish people who live in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The community is largely made of Ottoman Turkish descendants who have lived in Azerbaijan for centuries, as well as the Turkish Meskhetian community which arrived in large numbers during Soviet rule. More recently, there has been Turkish migration from the Republic of Turkey, as well as from other post-Ottoman modern nation-states (e.g. from the Balkans, Cyprus and the Levant) and from the Turkish diaspora (e.g. Germany and the Netherlands).

  1. ^ The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan. "Population by ethnic groups". Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  2. ^ Minahan, James (1998), Miniature Empires: A Historical Dictionary of the Newly Independent States, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 19, ISBN 0313306109
  3. ^ UNHCR 1999, 14.
  4. ^ Pentikäinen & Trier 2004, 13.
  5. ^ Aydıngün et al. 2006, 13.
  6. ^ Burford 2011, 42.
  7. ^ NATO Parliamentary Assembly. "Minorities in the South Caucasus: Factor of Instability?". Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  8. ^ Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı. "YURTDIŞINDAKİ VATANDAŞLARIMIZLA İLGİLİ SAYISAL BİLGİLER (31.12.2009 tarihi itibarıyla)". Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2011-09-27.