Turks in Azerbaijan
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| Turkish Azerbaijan
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Est. 50,000 |
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| Sunni Muslim |
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Turks in Azerbaijan are Turkish people who live in Azerbaijan. There are more than 50,000 Turks living in Azerbaijan according to the 1999 census. This number includes both Meskhetian Turks, who have largely immigrated to Azerbaijan in the 1960s and the 1980s, and ethnic Turks from Turkey who have settled in Azerbaijan since the 1990s.
Turkish and Azeri people share some aspects of Turkic heritage .Turkic people who are a group of peoples residing in northern, central and western Eurasia speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. These peoples share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds.
