Yes. Kurds make up between 15% and 25% of the Turkish population.
The main ethnic groups in Turkey are Turks, Kurds, Arabs, and others such as Circassians, Bosniaks, and Albanians. Turks make up the majority of the population, while Kurds are the largest minority group. These ethnic groups have diverse cultures, languages, and histories.
the Kurds are the largest minority and make up 20% of turkey's population.
Well, it's obviously Turkey... They have about 20-21 million kurds.
Because the Kurds wanted to form an independent state from turkey
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The Kurds primarily live in regions known as Kurdistan, which span across parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. However, they do not have an independent nation-state of their own. Instead, they live as a minority group within these countries.
Kurds are the second largest ethnic group in TURKEY(after Turks) and in IRAQ and SYRIA (after Arabs). In Iran, Kurds are the third largest ethnic group behind Persians and Azeris.
The dominant ethnic group in Turkey are the Turks. There are a number of minorities as well, such as Kurds (by far the largest minority), Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Azeris, Chechens, Circassians, Georgians, Greeks, Jews, Laz, Romani, and Syriacs.
They are the Kurds in northern Iraq.