:I beg to differ. I think the geographic distribution of the language has to be described, even if briefly, in the lede paragraph, just like the geographic location of a country is described in the lede paragraph of its corresponding article. Anyway, I think the current version is the most suitable and eliminates the numerical doubts that Alex mentioned earlier: Turkish (Türkçe), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 10–15 million native speakers in Southeastern Europe and 55–60 million native speakers in Western Asia.