{"id":58025,"date":"2026-01-17T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=58025"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:43:31","slug":"turk-population-in-iran-64-four-main-clusters-by-babek-cavansir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/turk-population-in-iran-64-four-main-clusters-by-babek-cavansir\/","title":{"rendered":"TURK POPULATION IN IRAN ? 64 % ? Four Main Clusters &#8211; by Babek Cavansir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong><span class=\"html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\"><span class=\"xjp7ctv\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58034\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Iran-Turk-Population.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Iran-Turk-Population.jpg 498w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Iran-Turk-Population-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/>Babek Cavan\u015fir<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Population of Turks in Iran Is Approximately 64% And It Consists Of Four Main Clusters In terms of Oral Features.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><\/div>\n<p>Iranian Turks are a part of the Turkish nation which provides a common integrity from a historical and cultural perspective. However, in terms of oral (linguistic) characteristics, the Turkish population in Iran can be handled as four main clusters:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>1-Turks (Central O enuz Turkish Speakers):<\/strong> This group is the largest community in Iran in terms of population percentage. Unlike other ethnic groups, including Persians, they live not only in a particular region but in every region of Iran.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This region, which we define as Turkish, is strategically located in a position that extends to Turkey in the northwest, Turkistan and Afghanistan in the northeast, and Basra Bay in the southwest, constitutes an important geopolitical area for the future of the Turkish world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to some opinions, this group constitutes a little more than one-third (1\/3) of the Iranian population and according to some approaches, at least 60%.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Based on the current population of Iran, this ratio is about 55 million. Various Yoruba communities are also included in this group. Among them are Turkish Ka\u015fkayi Eli, Shahseven Eli, Personally Shahseven Baghdadi Eli, Butcher Eli, etc. groups like these can be counted.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>About 10 million of this large population live in the Azerbaijan region (West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan and Erdebil provinces). Just as it is not correct to call \u201cTurkish Turks\u201d only \u201cErzurum Turks\u201d, it is also not appropriate to call \u201cIranian Turks\u201d only as \u201cAzerbaijani Turks\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>2-Turkmen-Turks (East O \u2019uz Turks):<\/strong> Turkmen-Turks live mainly in the north Horasan region with the southeast coast of the Caspian Sea. Their population is about 3 million and this number represents about 3.3% of the total population of Iran.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>3-Turks of Halac-ili (Turks of Halachistan):<\/strong> Turks of Halach-ili live in the Halachistan region, which ends in the cities of Kum, Erak, Save and Tefre\u015f in the south of Tahran province. It is considered that the population is about 200,000 people; this is about 0.3% of the population of Iran.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Halachistan Turkish has a special place in the world of Turkology. This language is the focus of attention of Turkologists worldwide in terms of its preservation of many archaic elements of Old Turkish (including Orhun Turkish).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>4-Kazakh Turks:<\/strong> Kazakh Turks migrated to the G\u00fcrgan region south of the Caspian Sea after the October Revolution of 1917. It is estimated that their population is about 10,000 people today.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This number corresponds to about 0.01% of the total population of Iran.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>A Statement on the Map<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Turkish settlements, which constitute the majority of population based on districts in Iran, are shown in red on the map. However, Turks live in different proportions in every region and corner of Iran except these areas.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babek Cavan\u015fir The Population of Turks in Iran Is Approximately 64% And It Consists Of Four Main Clusters In terms of Oral Features. Iranian Turks are a part of the Turkish nation which provides a common integrity from a historical and cultural perspective. However, in terms of oral (linguistic) characteristics, the Turkish population in Iran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[109,197,515,6394,4157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58037,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58025\/revisions\/58037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}