Turkish people orTurks (Turkish: Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of theTurkish language and form a majority inTurkey and Northern Cyprus. Most Turks areMuslims. There is also a large Turkish diaspora in theMiddle East andEurope due to the past extent of theOttoman Empire and currentimmigration of Turks to these regions.

• To illustrate how dramatically populations can displace each other over time, the historianE.M. Kulischer once reminded his readers that in A.D. 900Berlin had noGermans,Moscow had noRussians,Budapest had noHungarians,Madrid was aMoorish settlement, andConstantinople had hardly any Turks. He added that theNormans had not yet settled inGreat Britain and before the sixteenth century there were noEuropeans living inNorth or South America,Australia,New Zealand, orSouth Africa.
  • Neil Howe, Richard Jackson (2008)The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century. p. 15

• All Turkes do detest the colour ofblacke, and thinke those that weare it, shall never enter intoParadise: But the colour of greatest request among them isgreene; wherewith if anyChristian be apparrelled, he shall be sure of Bastinadoes, and other punishments: Neither may he use the name of their ProphetMahomet in his mouth, (under the paine of a cruell censure to be inflicted upon him) whom they so much adore, and honour.
  • William Lithgow,Totall Discourse, IV, 145

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