page_title: Turkish diaspora
section_title: Palestinian Turks
hierarchical_section_title: Turkish diaspora / Diasporas / Palestinian Turks
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture taken by me near Oxford Circus, London, of the protests condemning the atrocities in Aleppo. Many Londoners marched together (Arabs, Turks, Kurds and others) calling for an end to the war in Syria. The Syrian Turks were a dominant group in the protests and were holding signs reading 'No To Demographic Changes In Syria', 'No To Genocide', 'Protect Civilians' and 'Stop Killing Children'. Many demonstrators were also waving flags of the Republic of Turkey and Syria.
context_page_description: The Turkish diaspora is the estimated population of the Turks all around the world who have migrated out from Turkey and former Turkish territory. This includes citizens of Turkey living abroad, as well as ethnic Turks who have emigrated from other post-Ottoman states, particularly Turkish communities from the Balkans, the island of Cyprus, the region of Meskhetia in Georgia, and the Arab world.
  Due to the large numbers of Mainland Turks, and Turkish minorities from other post-Ottoman states who have emigrated from their traditional homelands, there are no official statistics which represent a true indication of the total ethnic Turkish population in the host countries. For example, although official data shows that there are 52,893 Turkish citizens in the United Kingdom, the Home Affairs Committee states that there are now 500,000 British Turks made up of 300,000 Turkish Cypriots, 150,000 Turkish nationals, and smaller groups of Bulgarian Turks and Romanian Turks. Nonetheless, it is known that Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and France all have larger Turkish diaspora communities than the UK.
context_section_description: During and after the 1947–1949 Israeli War of Independence , some of the Turkish minority fled the region (particularly the Jezreel Valley region and Golan Heights) and settled in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. In Jordan, there is approximately 55,000  Palestinian-Turkish refugees in Irbid 5,000 near Amman 5,000 in El-Sahne 3,000 in El-Reyyan 2,500 in El-Bakaa 1,500 in El-Zerkaa and 1,500 in Sahab
caption: Syrian Turks waving Turkish and Syrian flags whilst shouting slogans: "No To Demographic Changes in Syria' and 'No To Genocide' during the December 2016 protests in London.
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