İsrail Türkmenleri | |
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| Total population | |
| 22,000 (2007)[1] | |
| Languages | |
| Turkish | |
| Religion | |
| MajoritySunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Syrian Turkmen,Lebanese Turkmen,Turkish Jews in Israel |
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Israeli Turkmens also calledIsraeli Turks orIsraeli Turkish people are ethnicTurkish people from theRepublic of Turkey settled in Israel during 2000s.
Regarding people of ethnicTurkish who lived in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, seeTurks in Palestine.
During and after the1947–1949 Palestine war, some Turkmen fled the region and settled inJordan,Syria, andLebanon.[2]
During theBritish mandate of Palestine, the Turk tribes like Bani-Saidan and Bani Alaqama lived mostly in theJezreel Valley region; and, up until the Israeli conquest in1967, Turkmen tribes lived in theGolan Heights.[3]
