Arabs in Turkey

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Turkish Arabs
Türkiye Arapları
عرب تركيا
Total population
1,500,000 – 2,000,000 (2011)[1][2]
(Pre-Syrian Civil War Arab minority)
4,000,000 – 5,000,000 (2017)
Alawite
Related ethnic groups
Arab diaspora

Arabs in Turkey (

Syrian refugees have sought refuge in Turkey since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011.[21]

Background

Besides the large communities of both foreign and Turkish Arabs in Istanbul and other large cities, most live in the south and southeast.[22]

Turkish Arabs are mostly

Aleppo Vilayet.[23]

Besides a significant

Aleppo Vilayet, but this community has shrank considerably since the late 1940s, mostly due to migration to Israel
and other parts of Turkey.

History

Pre-Islamic period

Upper Mesopotamia region and its subdivisions (Diyar Bakr, Diyar Mudar, and Diyar Rabi'a), during the Umayyad and Abbasid calipahtes.

Arabs presence in what used to be called Asia Minor, dates back to the

Kingdom of Osroene, with its capital in the ancient city of Edessa (Modern day city of Urfa). According to Retsö, The Arabs presence in Edessa dates back to AD 49.[27] In addition, the Roman author Pliny the Elder refers to the natives of Osroene as Arabs and the region as Arabia.[28] In the nearby Tektek Mountains, Arabs seem to have made it the seat of the governors of 'Arab.[29] An early Arab figure who flourished in Anatolia is the 2nd century grammarian Phrynichus Arabius, specifically in the Roman province of Bithynia. Another example, is the 4th century Roman politician Domitius Modestus who was appointed by Emperor Julian to the position of Praefectus urbi of Constantinople (Modern day Istanbul). And under Emperor Valens, he became Praetorian Prefect of the East whose seat was also in Constantinople. In the 6th century, The famous Arab poet Imru' al-Qais journeyed to Constantinople in the time of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. On his way back, it is said that he died and was buried at Ancyra (Modern day Ankara) in the Central Anatolia Region.[30]

The age of Islam

In the early Islamic conquests, the

Rabi'ah ibn Nizar and Banu Taghlib.

Map from 1911 showing the ethnic composition of Turkey and the Levant
area

Demographics

Arabic-speaking population in Turkey[33]
Year As first language As second language Total Turkey's population % of Total speakers
1927 134,273 - 134,273 13,629,488 0.99
1935 153,687 34,028 187,715 16,157,450 1.16
1945 247,294 60,061 307,355 18,790,174 1.64
1950 269,038 - 269,038 20,947,188 1.28
1955 300,583 95,612 396,195 24,064,763 1.65
1960 347,690 134,962 482,652 27,754,820 1.74
1965 365,340 169,724 533,264 31,391,421 1.70

According to a Turkish study based on a large survey in 2006, 0.7% of the total population in Turkey were ethnically Arab.[34] The population of Arabs in Turkey varies according to different sources. A 1995 American estimate put the numbers between 800,000 and 1 million.[2] According to Ethnologue, in 1992 there were 500,000 people with Arabic as their mother tongue in Turkey.[35] Another Turkish study estimated the Arab population to be between 1.1 and 2.4%.[36]

Notable people

See also

References

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  14. ^ "The CIA World Factbook: Turkey (19% of a total population of 80.2 million (2017) gives a figure of about 15.25 million)". Archived from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
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  22. ^ Die Bevölkerungsgruppen in Istanbul (türkisch) Archived February 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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  31. ^ "The Origins of the Islamic State", a translation from the Arabic of the "Kitab Futuh al-Buldha of Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri", trans. by P. K. Hitti and F. C. Murgotten, Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, LXVIII (New York, Columbia University Press,1916 and 1924), I, 207-211
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  33. ^ Fuat Dündar, Türkiye Nüfus Sayımlarında Azınlıklar, 2000
  34. ^ "Toplumsal yapı araştırması 2006" (PDF). KONDA Research and Consultancy. 2006. pp. 15–16. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2012. .(in Turkish)
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  42. ^ "Tatlises rapped for using Kurdistan". kurdpress. 27 October 2013. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

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