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The Mardin province has an Arab population of 40-55%, the Urfa province has an Arab population of 60% (+). This article is a castastrophe, but what else can you expect from Wikipedia. I could make a great article about the Arabs of Anatolia, with sources and sensefull graphics, but its not worth making this for Wikipedia. --Najdiarabian (talk) 10:25, 7 May 2017 (UTC) If the arabs were so many they would fight for their homeland, but arabs will never be allowed to migrate in Turkey. Arabs claims themself be the majority everywere they live, but it's far away from that in Turkey. In Iran Khzestan province is persian province with two small arabic cities, but arabs also there claims be majority, if that was true Iraq would in 1980s winn the land of Khuzestan. Arabs are just some thousands in Turkey, a arab will never be allowed to exist among kurdish societies, it will give consequences and damages to arabs in future if the kurds don't breath their answer to arabs without independence today, the arabs can't have a agreement with a goverment of colonisation without words from the side God knows who has right. God does agree with kurds how Turkey become a empire! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.73.128.3 (talk) 05:23, 1 March 2012 (UTC) What non-sense are you writting there? The Jazira was mostly Arabic prior 1918. Kurdish pastoralists payed taxes to the native Arabs of the region. Like grashoppers you came and invaded the region after the First World War ended. --Najdiarabian (talk) 10:22, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

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Some factual errors: Hatay currently has a Turkish-majority population, the figure % 4 is highly doubtful, most Arabs in Turkey are Sunnis. For example the wife of Prime Minister Erdoğan is a Sunni Arab from Siirt. Both Sunni and Alawi Arabs live in Hatay. The schism between these populations are obvious. Sunni Arabs have a significantly high rate of illiteracy and other indicators of social impoverishment. Arab population in Gaziantep is negligible and Arabs form the majority in these districts in Siirt, Şanlıurfa, and Mardin: Siirt, Aydınlar; Akçakale, Harran; Mardin, Savur, Yeşilli. All three of these provinces have overall Kurdish majorities. There are also groups of Sunni Arabs in Adana and Mersin. For example, some Sunni Arabs in Çukurova are descendants of refugees from present-day Libya who left for Anatolia following the Italo-Turkish War in 1912. Behemoth 08:39, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

You're right, we shouldn't rely on the LOC exclusively. Their data are flawed; but if we're citing them, we have to cite them accurately. The way out of the situation is to find other sources that do correct the LOC story and corroborate what you're saying above... Q·L·1968 ☿ 15:47, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with some of that. Most Arabs in Turkey are Sunnis, but they are now in some sense Turkish too. Some of them don't speak Arabic anymore. Many of them live in Adana and Mersin. It is important to notice that many Arabs in Hatay are Sunnies and they have voted to be part of Turkey. Yet, that does not make them Turks. --Truthpedia 20:19, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Behemoth; prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is Laz which means Muslim Pontic Greek. 14:03, 04 March 2007 (UTC)

He was talking about his wife. Khoikhoi 03:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think Laz are Pontic Greeks, but anyway he might be Pontic Greek, but as far as I know, he is of Georgian descent. deniz 05:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

According to Laz people#Terminology, The general Turkish public use the name "Laz" for all inhabitants of Black Sea provinces to the east of Samsun. Khoikhoi 06:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey people are you dumb?? Laz people arent Greeks nor Georgians. Its like to say Jews are Araps.Hahaa Laz is LAz,Pontic greek is greek , and georgian is georgian.Dont speak about anything what you dont know.Espacially You Khoikoi!!!

-Laz language belongs to the South Caucasian languages (also known as Kartvelian) are spoken primarily in Georgia

Joshua

This project is not used in Wikipedia. Please learn why it is not used. Kavas (talk) 07:47, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

"8.317.545" figure

I think any person with basic knowledge with Turkey would instantly conclude that the figures posted here as "2010 census data" are bogus. Obviously this is not an official census since government data indicate 870,000 Arabs in 2008, so how could they get such insanely accurate numbers for each city? I will revert to the more reliable US data. If these are to be deemed "imperialist" then pick the Turkish government source.--Rafy talk

I don't know what makes one study more reliable than another! Even considering the US number, these figures are from 1995, 17 years ago. so, with simple math and a growth rate of 3%, this number would be easily around 2 million today. The number from the other 2010 source obviously takes into consideration Arabs that have mingled into the Turkish population in larger cities like Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. The figure from the Turkish census is definetely not a reliable source given the official Turkification the State has adopted for almost a century. عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 01:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Picking a random growth rate and doing simple math is considered WP:ORIGINAL RESEARCH afaik.

The website is not reliable for the simple fact that we have no idea how they got these numbers. Unless of course the webmaster conducted a nationwide census, which I highly doubt. Anyway, I had the question posted at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Arabs_in_Turkey.--Rafy talk 02:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

OK, I will not pick any rate. I hope you are good in math to understand what I will be elaborating here.

Well, obviously the Turkish source you cite talks about Turkification (see the Kurdish part). The population of Hatay province alone is 1.4 Million of which two-thirds were Arab according to your "US source". Another article puts the number of Arabs (only native speakers) at 365,340 and Kurds at 2,219,502 as of 1984. If we use the numbers from Turkey which show 15.7% of the population is Kurdish, with the same proportions from 1984 we will get 2.6% as the Arabic native speaker proportion (equivalent to 1,905,216 people). Again, this only considers native speakers knowing that many Arabs have lost their language during successive Turkification campaigns. This is just to show how severely underestimated your number is. عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 16:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Again, applying certain proportion of Kurdish population to Arabs is still original research. One cannot admit that a number of Turks may trace their heritage back to Arab tribes, the same way you find many fully "Arabised" families of Turkish descent such as the Gailanis, Qabbanis, Rustums, etc.--Rafy talk 21:48, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

I never talked about Turks or Kurds tracing their heritage back to Arabs!!! I am just talking about NATIVE ARABIC SPEAKERS (i.e. ARABS). I am saying if the proportion of Arabs to Kurds (according to 1984 stat) is 1 to 6, then with Kurds representing 15.7% of the population in Turkey (according to the stat in Turkey article) we will get 2.6% as the percentage of Arabs in Turkey. I hope it's clear now...

Arabs in Adana alone represent one-third of the population (see Adana#Demographics), being ~1.6 M. in 2010. That's half a million of Arabs already. عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 18:50, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Probably OR too. The reference given at the end of the paragraph makes no such claim and reasserts the 870,000 estimate.--Rafy talk 14:05, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

The source which is counting the figure of Arabic people in Turkey as 8.000.000 isn't believable. The majority of sources showing us that the the figure is something between 850.000-1.000.000. Also when we think in a logical way this figure nonsense. Turkey has population of 72.000.000 people. 55 milion of them consider themselves as Turkish and 14 milion as Kurds and Zazas, when we add these two figures this makes a number of 69.000.000. The rest of the population are more Bosnians, Georgians or Laz people. Here is a soruce of a serious newspaper in Turkey: 'Milliyet'

Here is an other serious source:Library of Congress – Federal Research Division

Also the CIA World Factbook is giving us these numbers, you can search and see by your own. The source turkiyearaplari which you guys give is subjective. The research of them isnt anyway scientific or accepted by any other global researches.

An othe source from the National Security Council (Turkey) [1]

The German Wikipedia is accepting this source: [Ali Tayyar Önder: Türkiye'nin etnik yapısı: Halkımızın kökenleri ve gerçekler. Kripto Kitaplar, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 605-4125-03-6, S. 103. (Türkisch)]

Here is an old source of "The Library of Congress Country Studies; CIA World Factbook" photius.com

An other source of a professor ARAŞTIRMACI Ali Tayyar Önder, "Türkiye'nin Etnik Yapısı-Halkımızın Kökenleri ve Gerçekler" başlıklı kitabını yeniden düzenlemiş

I want to see serious serious sources and not subjective web-sites. Wish you all a good day -Sero1988 26 February 2012 —Preceding undated comment added 17:30, 26 February 2012 (UTC).

That source is not nearly reliable enough to be referred to anywhere in Wikipedia, much less in an infobox which is supposed to briefly show more or less established facts. --Mttll (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

It is amazing how you are picky with your sources, you like only the ones talking about 0.5 million, when you know Hatay alone has a lot more than that, leave alone Adana, Karatas, Mersin, Siirt, Urfa, Mardin, Antep, Kilis, etc... عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 11:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

That's the number of people who identify Arab in the country according to a relatively recent, large survey. Since there is no official census, it's the next best thing. The amateur website you champion, on the other hand, is unreliably biased and its figures are complete fabrication. --Mttll (talk) 20:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Serious sources?

Your sources are faaaar from being serious. Ali Tayyar Önder is estimating the Kurds at 7%, which we all know is not true. Milleyet estimates Turks in Turkey at 81% and Kurds at 9%, again this is -as usual- simply underestimating non-Turkic components. What you call National Security Council source is just a blog copying one of your other sources. Given the intense Turkification campaigns for decades, it just natural to deny the presence of a significant number of Arabs living and present there before the arrival of Turkic tribes from Central Asia in the 11th century. Since there is no official census or even estimation for minorities in Turkey, it will be very hard to believe your numbers. By the way, all the numbers cited in your references are outdated (some from the early 1980's). عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 18:22, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

In the source of Milliyet the population of Kurdish people in Turkey is 13,4% and this figure is definetly realistic and reliable. It is normal that in Turkey right now is a "Turkification", also in the past things like that happen, like the German Ostsiedlung or the French Huguenots which migrated to Germany and became German. The right term here is how many Arabs consider themselves as Arabic or Turkish. People integrate themselves to the majority of population and are becoming a part of them. We are not talking here about the past but right now nobody even in the European or US researches is giving the number of Arabic people in Turkey higer than 1 million. You can search and find an other source which is giving the number as 8 million. But this source should be trustful and from the officials. Here is an other source from the Milli Güvenlik Kurumu from an other newspaper [2]. Also the sources aren't outdated and from the 1980's. This source is from 2008 and from the Library of Congress, also this is the most reliable source and correspond with the official Turkish sources. Show me a source by me which is from 1980's. Also your thesis with population growth is the biggest nonesense, because this growth is calculated through all Turkey and the growth of Arabic population in the Republic of Turkey is maybe -1%? I am gonna contact someone who is in a higer position than us to slove this problem, someone neutral. Sero1988 16:33, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Sero, since you are not willing to give up the extremely low numbers you are projecting, I suggest that we put a range of 1-8 Million, with the sources for each. I hope this would solve the different estimations problem. عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 17:00, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Listen I dont want to discuss about this figure anymore, make what ever you want. I am Turkish of Laz heritage and I have friends from Adana or from the rest of Turkey. I only met one Arab from Turkey and she was from Hatay but she considers herself as Turkish and not Arabic anymore, she couldnt even speak Arabic. With your figure Turkey is not gonna be Arabic or the population. You put a figure which is not true and which isnt connected to the truth. Save a little bit money and travel to Adana or even Hatay and make your own conclusion about the Arabic population there. I am from the province Sinop and in your site the figure of Arabs is there 6500, I travel every year to that place, the local people know which village is Georgian or Circassian. On the matter of fact you put this figure for nationalistic reasons. But your act is empty. So good bye and be a little bit more realistic!!! Sero1988 17:11, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Sero, obviously this number includes those who don't speak Arabic, but are of Arab origin. You can still be Arab but not speak Arabic. BTW, I did travel to Adana, Iskenderun, and Antakya (among others) and met with people speaking Arabic there. Cheers. عمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 05:36, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm afraid your alleged personal experiences are not relevant here. --Mttll (talk) 20:25, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Source needed for provinces with significant populations

Where's the source for this? Cavann (talk) 19:00, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Numbers and other relevant info

Cavann, your Konda source is one source I can't read and can't trust. I have added the number from the US Congress study in the infobox. I have added some historical background and I'll keep working on that, hoping to reach agreement on this. If you don't like Joshua project, I'll get other sources for you, no worries. Amr ibn Kulthoumعمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 02:46, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

BTW, your Konda source says 0.75% Arabs and 0.35% Alewis, adding up to 1.1%, not 0.7% as you were claiming. Amr ibn Kulthoumعمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 03:23, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

It's Alevi. Some people identified with religion, rather than ethnicity. So adding that up to Arabs is WP:OR. It's also interesting that you said you cannot read the source, yet you can see the percentage for Arabs. Do not falsify the source. Cavann (talk) 23:25, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

You are the one falsifying, the number for Arabs is %0.75 (not 0.7% as you claim) + 0.35% for Alawis. If you round off, then 0.75 rounds up to 0.8 not to 0.7. This is Grade 5 math. Alawis are Arabs, and they speak Arabic, the only difference is that they are Sunnis. I didn't know that I also have to educate you about this. As for reading the source, it says page 15, and with an invention called Google Translate you can figure out that Arabs translates to Araplari in Turkish. Amr ibn Kulthoumعمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 16:22, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

I already told you Alevi is not the same thing with Alawi. There are 10 to 15 million are Alevis in Turkey. Clearly, they are not necessarily Arab. .7% is the adjusted rate (in the column "KONDA Tarafından Düzenlenmiş Veriye Göre"), which we are using, since we are using inferential statistics here. .75% is the results of raw data.Cavann (talk) 18:24, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes, Alevis are different from Alawis, and Konda is clearly referring to Alawis with the slim percentage of 0.35%. Otherwise, the percentage could have been 15-20%. I still believe the percentage for Konda should be 0.75%+0.35%=1.1%. Amr ibn Kulthoumعمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 23:37, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

I already told you some people identified with religion, rather than ethnicity. .9 are "Muslim Turks." Clearly that is not the % of Muslims in Turkey. Stop trying to push your OR into the article. Cavann (talk) 17:21, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

In this case, this whole Konda study is crap. If the numbers don't mean anything, why refer to them???!!! Amr ibn Kulthoumعمرو بن كلثوم (talk) 01:31, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

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