Kurdistano wrote:your estimated numbers are so huge. since when do we have 400000 Turkmens in Kurdistan? You can find a handful in Urfa, Malatya and Semsur probably 50000 in number + some 100000 in South kurdistan.
Than we got some hundred thousands of Turks in Malatya, Antep, Erzincan.
Arabs if you consider south Urfa as part of KUrdistan and those immigrants from Iraq as Kurdistanians than we would come probably to almost a half million. but I do not consider those recent immigrants in Iraq as Kurdistanis. Merdin is probably up to 70-80% Kurdish and rest Arab and Arameic. You can find some Arabs in Elih, Dilok and Sert. I would say Arabs number a half Mio if you consider South Urfa as part of Kurdistan if not than probably 300000.
And one million Assyrians is too much. You got probably some 100000 in South Kurdistan and the same in North and East. Their Number makes up 200000
I dunno bro,
400 000 may indeed be a bit too much for Turkmen, but around 200 000 - 300 000 certainly is possible, there are many in Turkmen in Kirkuk, let alone in the rest of South Kurdistan, and a number of them in the other parts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_TurkmensAccording to most western sources, Turkmen population varies from 222,000(less than %2 of all)[14] to 300,000 That's in whole Iraq, but they're mainly concentrated in Kurdish areas.
Of Turks I'm not sure, if we would have Hatay and Maras, then certainly there would be quite a number of them, and they are also scattered throughout North Kurdistan.
I agree on Arabs.
Assyrians seem to number a bit less than 2,5 million in the whole Middle East, and I think it's quite possible that half of them live in Kurdistan.
Al-Hasakah, Qamishlo, Sinjar, Nineveh, Mardin and some other cities all have significant Assyrian populations.
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:31 pm
