Bosniaks in Turkey

Bosniaks in Turkey
Türkiye'deki Boşnaklar

Ayşe Kulin Mirsad Türkcan Hedo Türkoğlu Cem Adrian Emina Jahović Sandal Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ Semih Erden Emir Preldžić
Total population
101,000 – 2,000,000[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
Marmara Region, Aegean Region
Languages
Bosnian, Turkish
Religion
Sunni Islam

Bosniaks in Turkey refers to citizens of Turkey who are, or descend from, ethnic Bosniak people, originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak and other former Yugoslav republics.

Numbers

In the 1965 Census, 17,627 Turkish citizens spoke Bosnian as a first language, which is only 0.05% of the population. These people were mostly living in Kocaeli (1.2%), Sakarya (0.7%), Kırklareli (0.4%) and Izmir (0.2%). Another 34,892 spoke Bosnian as a second language.

See also

• Turks in Bosnia and Herzegovina

References

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