Why are there so many Turkish people in Denmark?
At the end of the 1950s Denmark required a high labour demand which triggered labour immigration mainly from Turkey and Yugoslavia; consequently, alongside the Turkish migrants from Turkey, there was also a substantial number of Balkan Turks (e.g. Bulgarian Turks, Bosnian Turks etc) who arrived in Denmark.
According to the Statistical Office of the European Union, at least 1.9 million Turkish citizens live in Europe. Germany has the biggest Turkish community of 1.3 million Turkish people, trailed some way behind by France with 210,351 and Austria with 117,625.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established on 26 January 1925 by the “Treaty of Friendship between the Republic of Türkiye and the Kingdom of Denmark”. The last Presidential visit to Denmark was paid on 17-18 March 2014.
The Turkish-Germans are the largest ethnic minority group in Germany and also the largest Turkish community in the Turkish diaspora.
Family reunifications. By the early 1970s, the majority of Turkish emigration to Western Europe was for the purpose of family reunification. Furthermore, by the 1990s, migration mainly by way of marriage continued to be one of the principal reasons for settling in Western Europe.
Consequently, today the Turkish people form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. There are also significant Turkish minorities who still live in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and the Levant, and North Africa.
Thus, the Turks were the largest Danish Muslim population and accounted for 35% of the 200,000 Muslims. In 2015 the Turkish Danish population was around 75,000.
Denmark supports a high standard of living—its per capita gross national product is among the highest in the world—with well-developed social services. The economy is based primarily on service industries, trade, and manufacturing; only a tiny percentage of the population is engaged in agriculture and fishing.
Denmark shares similarities with several countries, but in terms of social and economic factors, countries such as Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands are often considered to be the most similar to Denmark.
Danish language, the official language of Denmark, spoken there by more than five million people. It is also spoken in a few communities south of the German border; it is taught in the schools of the Faroe Islands, of Iceland, and of Greenland.
Where do most Turkish live in USA?
Turkish Americans live in all fifty states, although the largest concentrations are found in New York City and Rochester, New York; Washington, D.C.; and Detroit, Michigan.
Firstly, in the 1960s and 1970s many came to Germany because the Thracian tobacco industry was affected by a severe crisis and many tobacco growers lost their income. Between 1970 and 2010, approximately 40,000 Western Thrace Turks arrived in Western Europe, most of which settled in Germany.
Nearly 60 years after the first Turkish guest workers arrived in the country, 3.4% of the nation's population has Turkish roots. A study released in 2017 found that the number of Germans with foreign backgrounds reached a new high, at 18.6 million — or about 1 in every 5 Germans.
| Country | Region | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Turkey | Western Asia | 74,759,000 |
| Germany | Western Europe | 2,186,000 |
| Bulgaria | Eastern Europe | 530,000 |
| France | Western Europe | 272,000 |
Turkish migration from the Republic of Turkey to Belgium began in the 1960s when Belgium was actively encouraging immigration to meet its employment needs in an era of rapid economic expansion. These immigrants were welcomed as "guest workers" when Belgium and Turkey signed a bilateral agreement in July 1964.
The top three reasons for choosing Turkey as the intended destination country included safety, appealing socio-economic conditions, and ease of access to asylum procedures.
Turks are closest to OCA (Caucasus) and OME (Iranian and Syrian) groups, compared to other groups or populations such as East-Central European populations (OEC), European (EUR, including Northern and Eastern European), Sardinian, Roma, and Turkmen.
Parental ancestry coefficients for our Turkish samples were found to be 38% European, 35% Middle Eastern, 18% South Asian, and 9% Central Asian.
Most Turks are hybrid with Arab, Greek, Kurd, or Persian influence and more recent genetical influx from muhacirs aka Albanians and Bosniaks and other Slavic Muslims, such as the Pomaks, for example.
Ethnic groups
Danish (includes Greenlandic (who are predominantly Inuit) and Faroese) 85.6%, Turkish 1.1%, other 13.3% (largest groups are Polish, Syrian, Romanian, German, and Iraqi) (2022 est.)
Where are most Danish people from?
Danish people or Danes are the nation and ethnic group that is born in Denmark, and who speak Danish. There is also a Danish minority in Southern Schleswig. Related languages include Norwegian, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic, and to a lesser extent, all Germanic languages.
There are over 50,000 Germans living in Turkey, primarily Germans married to Turkish spouses, employees, retirees and long-term tourists who buy properties across the Turkish coastline, often spending most of the year in the country.
The Danish lifestyle
This apparent satisfaction with life is often credited to 'soft factors' – culture, leisure time and family life. We are well educated and informed but enjoy informality, which is often experienced in the laidback and open style of communication – also in an office environment.
Charlottenlund is a suburban area on the coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the administrative seat of Gentofte Municipality. Bordered to the east by the Øresund, to the South by Hellerup and to the north by Klampenborg, it is one of the wealthiest areas in Denmark.
The Social Progress Index 2017 capture three dimensions of social progress: Basic Human Needs, Foundations of Wellbeing, and Opportunity and found Denmark to have the best quality of life in the World.
