Turks in Kyrgyzstan

Turks in Kyrgyzstan are ethnic Turks who live in Kyrgyzstan.

Turks in Kyrgyzstan
Total population
  • 50,000[1] to 70,000[2]
  • plus 3,200 Turkish nationals[3]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Turkish
Religion
Islam

History

The majority of Turks were deported from south-western Georgia to Central Asia in 1944, where they were employed largely in the agricultural sector in grain and livestock production. Of the 207,500 Meskhetian Turks registered in the 1989 Soviet census, there were 21,294 Turks in Kyrgyzstan.[4]

Turks in Kyrgyzstan according to Soviet Censuses and 1999, 2009 National Censuses[5]
Year Population
19703,076
19795,160
198921,294
199933,327
200939,133

Demographics

Turks in Kyrgyzstan are often called Fergana Turks due to their large presence in the Fergana valley.[6]

Education

The Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University was established in Jal district of Bishkek in 1995 and has around 2,000 students. It is one of the leading universities in the country. The Kyrgyz-Turkish Anatolian High School, Krygyz-Turkish Anatolian Girls Vocational School, Bishkek Turkish Primary School and Turkish Language Teaching Center are run by the Turkish Ministry of Education.

See also

References
  1. IRIN Asia. "KYRGYZSTAN: Focus on Mesketian Turks". Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  2. Blacklock 2005, 10.
  3. Council of Europe 2007, 130.
  4. Babak, Vaisman & Wasserman 2004, 252.
  5. Population and Housing Census 2009. Book 2. Part 1. (in tables). Population of Kyrgyzstan. (Перепись населения и жилищного фонда Кыргызской Республики 2009. Книга 2. Часть 1. (в таблицах). Население Кыргызстана) (PDF), Bishkek: National Committee on Statistics, 2010, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-30
  6. Minahan 1998, 142.

Bibliography
  • Babak, Vladimir; Vaisman, Demian; Wasserman, Aryeh (2004), Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Sources and Documents, Routledge, ISBN 0-7146-4838-8.
  • Blacklock, Denika (2005), FINDING DURABLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE MESKHETIANS (PDF), http://www.ecmi.de/: EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MINORITY ISSUES, archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-02
  • Council of Europe (2007), Parliamentary Assembly: Working Papers 2007 Ordinary Session 22–26 January 2007, Council of Europe, ISBN 92-871-6191-7.
  • Minahan, James (1998), Miniature Empires: A Historical Dictionary of the Newly Independent States, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-30610-9.
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