New Statistics Reveal the Size of Turkey’s Kurdish Population
20 September 2012 / Rudaw – The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) recently published the birth records of Kurdish citizens in Turkey.
According to these records, there are 22,691,824 Kurds in Turkey, mostly born in Kurdish cities in the southeast of the country.
Therefore, out of Turkey’s 74.7 million citizens, more than 30 percent are Kurds. These records only include people who have been registered at official government institutions. After the founding of the Turkish Republic, the first census was carried out in 1927. According to that census, the Turkish population was 13,464,564. At that time, Serhat was the most populous Kurdish city with 38,000 residents. The second most populous city was Dilok.