title: Population of Turkey by ethnic groups and provinces.
abstract: "The principal objective of this paper...is to estimate the number of Kurds in Turkey and their spatial distribution.... The ethnically Kurdish component of the population has increased from 3.132 million in 1965 to 7.046 million in 1990. This very substantial increase has been due to high fertility, which is a characteristic of agrarian or recently agrarian societies...,coupled with falling mortality, a typical case of demographic transition.... Perhaps more importantly, the massive population movements during the last two decades have spatially redistributed the Kurds."
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mutlu
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001211:Asia, Western; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D005298:Fertility; D005843:Geography; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D012106:Research; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014421:Turkey
keywords: Asia; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Estimation Technics; Ethnic Groups; Fertility--changes; Geographic Factors; Mediterranean Countries; Migration; Mortality--changes; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Growth Estimation; Population Growth--determinants; Research Methodology; Settlement And Resettlement; Spatial Distribution; Turkey; Western Asia