Originally Posted by
rich
As someone who is a fan of multiculturalism I am all for admitting the Turks to the EC.
Here is a full list of the ethnic minorities in Turkey, each with their own language .
There could be a daunting amount of paperwork involved in squeezing everyone in!
But, hey!, the more the merrier! And I know, Percy, you would be a one man welcoming committee. I see that the Cossaks left in 1962 - a pity that, Cossaks would fit in very nicely in Scotland or Barrow on Furness.
Here's the list:
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Turkic-speaking peoples: Karakalpaks, Turkmens, Kazakhs, Kumyks, Yörüks, Uzbeks, Crimean Tatars, Azeris, Balkars, Uyghurs, Karachays.
Indo-European-speaking peoples: Kurds, Zazas, Armenians, Hamshenis, Greeks
Semitic-speaking peoples: Arabs, Jews, and Assyrians
Caucasian-speaking peoples: Georgians, Lazs, Circassians, and Chechens
Other Muslim groups originally from the Balkans (Bulgarians, Albanians, Macedonians, Serbs, Croats, Romanians and Bosniaks): These people migrated to Anatolia during the Ottoman Era and have been assumed to accept Turkish-Muslim identity.
Cossacks in Turkey (mostly left Turkey by 1962)
Others: There are small groups and individuals from all over the world living in Turkey, either remnants of past migrations (there is for instance a village near the Bosphorus named Adampol in Polish, Polonezköy, "the Polish village", in Turkish) or witnesses of contemporary mass migrations towards the European Union and its periphery (there are also illegal migrants camps with thousands of Africans and others intercepted while trying to embark, or swimming from the wreckage of overpopulated small boats, for the Greek or Italian shores).
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