Ethnic groups in Turkey

With their hometown cleared of terrorist elements, Chaldean Christians in southeastern Turkey have returned to restore their local church.       

Turkey's president this weekend will cut the ribbon on an exhibit featuring the works of renowned Turkish-Armenian photographer Ara Güler in Kyoto, Japan.

Starting this week, Ethnic Albanians from Montenegro and North Macedonia now have the same access to jobs in Albania as locals, according to a decision made by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's cabinet, which was made public on Monday.

A man selling Turkish flags in Istanbul, Turkey, 02 August 2018. EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

The Foreign Ministry in Montenegro has tried to ease concerns expressed about the expatriate cards it is offering its large diaspora community after some ethnic Bosniaks from Montenegro now living in Turkey expressed fears that it was designed to undermine their ethnic identity.

Montenegro is offering expatriate card to members of its diaspora - but some Bosniaks whose ancestors migrated from today's Montenegro to Turkey fear the cards will undermine their identity.

At least 54 people died when an overcrowded ferry carrying families sank on March 21 in a swollen river in northern Iraq during Kurdish New Year celebrations, officials said.

Turkish emigres from Greece often reminisce about their days in their former homeland before their exodus in a population exchange in 1923. But little is known about the Roma people among those Turks who also had to leave their homes at the end of World War One. Survivors and their grandchildren are now opening up and telling their stories.

The Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) received a record number of applications in 2019 for scholarships from 145,700 foreign students to study in Turkey as part of a program called "Turkey Scholarships."

President Donald Trump warned Turkey on Sunday of economic devastation if it attacks Kurdish forces in the wake of the US troop pullout from Syria, while also urging the Kurds not to "provoke" Ankara, reports AFP. 

Turkey on Jan. 14 warned U.S. President Donald Trump against conflating Syrian Kurds with the illegal PKK organization.