[Ethnic structure in Turkey as implied by the analysis of census data on mother tongue]

The authors examine data on language from population censuses conducted in Turkey from 1927 until 1971. "The main objective of this paper is to draw some implications about the ethnic structure of Turkish citizens to the extent permitted by the available 'mother tongue' data. Turkish is the most commonly used language followed by Kurdish and Arabic. Census data carry evidence of differential mortality (as well as fertility) on growth rates of different sub-groups in Turkey. The paper sets 'reasonable' low and high estimates of major groups under different growth rate assumptions in Turkey." (SUMMARY IN ENG)