| Total population |
|---|
| 8,844 (2001 census) est.10,000[1] |
| Languages |
| Religion |
Turks in Ukraine are people of Turkish ethnicity living in Ukraine. This could mean roots linking back to Turkey, the island of Cyprus or other Turkish communities.
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| Region | Turks (2001 census) |
|---|---|
| Kherson Oblast | 3,736 |
| Donetsk Oblast | 1,791 |
| Crimea | 969 |
| Mykolaiv Oblast | 758 |
| Kharkiv Oblast | 378 |
| Zaporizhia Oblast | 343 |
| Odessa Oblast | 171 |
| Poltava Oblast | 161 |
| Kiev | 122 |
| Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 120 |
| Sumy Oblast | 100 |
| Kiev Oblast | 52 |
| Luhansk Oblast | 34 |
| Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 22 |
| Vinnytsia Oblast | 21 |
| Sevastopol | 19 |
| Lviv Oblast | 12 |
| Cherkasy Oblast | 9 |
| Chernivtsi Oblast | 5 |
| Zakarpattia Oblast | 5 |
| Ternopil Oblast | 4 |
| Chernihiv Oblast | 3 |
| Kirovohrad Oblast | 3 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 2 |
| Rivne Oblast | 2 |
| Zhytomyr Oblast | 2 |
| Volyn Oblast | 0 |
| (Source: Ukrainian Census 2001)[2] | |
A Mosque was also built in Mariupol, Ukraine and named after Suleiman the Magnificent, the Mosque was opened in 2005. It was built by a Turkish Businessman (Salih Cihan). Five times prayers along with the Friday Prayers are offered at the mosque.
The Simferepol International School opened by Turkish entrepreneurs in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine has been listed the top school in the list of the country’s best 100 schools. Turkish, English, Crimean Tatar, and French are taught at the school. In the third year since its establishment, the school has achieved several successes in the Olympics held in the city and across the country. The Turkish school also won a bronze medal in the International Environmental Project Olympics (INEPO) held in Turkey. [3]
The ' Turkish Town ' is a community located between Solomenka, Cadet Guy and Ivana Pyluya, in the Chokolivka area. It consists of ten sixteen-storey houses built in 1993-96 to provide good housing for former Soviet serviceman returning from what was East Germany. The development ended up full of professional people in addition to soldiers. It is called Turkish town because it was built by Turkish workers. [4]
Ottoman architecture in Ukraine