The 27th Annual Turkish Day Parade (2008) in New York
Total population
212,489[a][1] 2019 American Community Survey 350,000-2,000,000 (other sources)[2][3][4][5]
Regions with significant populations
New York Metropolitan Area
Rochester, New York
Massachusetts
New Jersey
North Carolina
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ohio
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Florida
Maryland
Albuquerque, New Mexico
California
Texas
Languages
Turkish
American English
Religion
Predominantly Sunni Islam Minority Alevism, Christianity, Other religions and Irreligion
^a: Government immigration figures on the number of Turkish Americans may not fully account for Turks born in the Balkans, Cyprus, and other areas of the former Ottoman areas, as well as Meskhetian Turks from the former USSR.[6]
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Turkish Americans (Turkish: Türk Amerikalılar) or American Turks are Americans of ethnic Turkish origin. The term "Turkish Americans" can therefore refer to ethnic Turkish immigrants to the United States, as well as their American-born descendants, who originate either from the Ottoman Empire or from post-Ottoman modern nation-states. The majority trace their roots to the Republic of Turkey, however, there are also significant ethnic Turkish communities in the US which descend from the island of Cyprus, the Balkans, North Africa, the Levant and other areas of the former Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, in recent years there has been a significant number of ethnic Turkish people coming to the US from the modern Turkish diaspora (i.e. outside the former Ottoman territories), especially from the Turkish Meskhetian diaspora in Eastern Europe (e.g. from Krasnodar Krai in Russia) and "Euro-Turks" from Central and Western Europe (e.g. Turkish Germans etc.).
^U.S. Census Bureau. "People Reporting Ancestry - Table B04006 - 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates".
^"The Turkish American Community". 2023 Turkish Coalition of America. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
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^Feldman, Brian (2022), The District 15 Delegation will be making an appearance Thursday on a TV show which reaches over 2 million Turkish Americans as well as viewers in Turkey!, Facebook, retrieved 3 November 2022
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