Turkey Other Erotic

This residual category covers Turkish populations not enumerated in the other composition rows — approximately 0.5% of the population. Includes Bosniak / Bosnian-Turkish (descendants of post-Ottoman Balkan Muslim refugees, predominantly in northwestern Turkey), Albanian-Turkish, Pomak (Bulgarian-speaking Muslim community in eastern Thrace), Roma / Romani (the Turkish Roma community is one of the larger national Roma populations, approximately 700,000-2M+ depending on enumeration methodology), Greek-Turkish (the very small remaining community after the 1923 Greco-Turkish population exchange that displaced approximately 1.2M Anatolian Greeks plus 400,000 Balkan Muslims), Armenian-Turkish (the small remaining community after the 1915 Armenian Genocide, predominantly in Istanbul ~50,000+), Assyrian (concentrated in Istanbul plus the historic Tur Abdin region in southeastern Turkey), Levantine (the historic Italian/French/Levantine community of Istanbul, Izmir), plus the substantial Syrian refugee population (~3.6M+ as of 2024, predominantly enumerated separately given their refugee-rather-than-citizen status), plus other smaller groups.