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Old 04-07-2012, 11:57 PM   #20
SDorothy28

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Interesting, and you are sure they are Turks and nor Kurds?

Also Atheists?

Not typical of Turks to be atheists. Which parts of Turkey are they from or where did you meet them?
Sorry, atheist/secular.

I guess they could be kurds.

---------- Post added 2012-04-07 at 18:11 ----------

I did some googling and wiki Sweden gave me this information:

Turks in Sweden is usually defined as persons in Sweden with Turkish as their mother tongue. During the 1950s - and '60s, many Turks came to Sweden through labor .
Kurds , Assyrians / Syriacs , Armenians and other ethnic groups from Turkey has also in many cases included in the statistics of Turks in Sweden, even if they are not ethnic Turks, as the Migration Board in Sweden senses people by country of origin rather than ethnicity. [2]
There are various reasons quite difficult to give exact figures on how many ethnic Turks from Turkey that may exist in Sweden. One can, however, according to Turkish clubs membership figures and other government sources estimate that there may be about 15 000 ethnic Turks in Sweden. The figure includes the ethnic Turks from both Turkey and the Balkan countries.
There are also Turks from Bulgaria , Macedonia , Kosovo and Northern Cyprus . Most residents of Skåne.
The source actually states 67,000.

http://www.joshuaproject.net/countries.php?rog3=SW
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