Turkish Americans facts for kids
The 27th Annual Turkish Day Parade (2008) in New York
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| Total population | |
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| 230,342 (2016 ACS) More than 1,000,000 (2012 estimate by the former US Commerce Secretary John Bryson) |
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| Religion | |
| Predominantly Sunni Islam (including practising and non-practising) Minority Alevism, other religions, or irreligious |
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^ a: Government immigration figures on the number of Turks in the US are not fully reliable because a considerable number of Turks were born in the Balkans, Cyprus, and other areas of the former Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, there has been more recent Turkish migration waves of Meskhetian Turks from the former USSR. |
Turkish Americans or American Turks are Americans who come from families with ethnic Turkish backgrounds.
Images for kids
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A Turkish immigrant in New York (1912).
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Turkish workers in Detroit (1923).
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Dr. Fuat Umay meeting Turkish American women (1923).
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Turkish Americans holding the flags of the United States and Turkey.
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Turkish Cypriot Americans in New York City supporting for the recognition of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
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Meskhetian Turks protesting outside the White House in Washington D.C..
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The Islamic Center of Washington was originally conceived in 1944 when the Turkish ambassador Munir Ertegun died and there was no mosque to hold his funeral in.
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The Turkish Ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.
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Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015.
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Ben Ali Haggin.
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James Ben Ali Haggin was an American multi-millionaire by 1880.
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D'Arcy Carden.
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Founders of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun (left) with his brother Nesuhi Ertegun (right)
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