Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively. Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others. There are over 300 million Arabs.
Turkey is neither Arab nor Persian. Turkey is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia and a smaller portion on the Balkans in Southeast Europe. The majority of the population in Turkey is Turkish, and the official language is Turkish.
Neither. Turkish is Turkic, Arabic is Semitic and Persian is Indo-European. Three different language families. However, both Persian and Arabic had influence on Turkish - especially Ottoman Turkish whose vocabulary was a mixture of the two.
Iranians and Turks share some cultural, historical, and linguistic similarities despite having distinct and separate identities. One similarity is the influence of Islamic culture and traditions in both societies.
Arabic vs Turkish vs Persian: which is the hardest?
Which is harder Farsi or Turkish?
In terms of difficulty of the languages in the region, Turkish appears to be the easiest, but Persian is the most closely related to English, though the script may make it challenging, and Arabic is obviously the most difficult.
Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively. Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others. There are over 300 million Arabs.
While the legal use of the term "Turkish" as it pertains to a citizen of Turkey is different from the term's ethnic definition, the majority of the Turkish population (an estimated 70 to 75 percent) are of Turkish ethnicity. The vast majority of Turks are Muslims and follow the Sunni and Alevi faith.
The vast majority of the population of modern Turkey consists of ethnic Turks. Ethnic Turks are people who speak the Turkish language. The largest minority group is the Kurds, who make up well over 12 percent of the population. Neither Kurds nor Arabs, another minority group, enjoy special constitutional protection.
At no point did Persia belong to the Ottoman Empire. From 1514 until the beginning of the 19th century, it was a rival empire that engaged the Ottomans in conflict. While the Persians had a monarch in charge, the Ottomans had a sultan. The Persians practiced Zoroastrianism, whereas the Ottomans were Muslims.
The closest language to Turkish is Azerbaijani. Azerbaijani and Turkish belong to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family and share many similarities in terms of grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics.
It sounds like a distant relative of Turkish, due to the proximity of the two countries and the loanwords we, Turks, got from Farsi language (Persian). Plus, the accents of two languages are very similar and transitional.
The most common but exclusive definition of the Middle East at the time of writing extends to Egypt in the West, Iran in the East, the Arabian Peninsula in the South and Turkey in the North (although occasionally Turkey and, more rarely, Egypt are omitted).
Originally Answered: What countries are considered Persian? Just one: Iran. Iran was officially known as Persia in the Western world until 1935 when the Persian king, Reza Shah Pahlavi, asked foreigners to officially call Persia by its native name Iran.
Some experts estimate that roughly one in 100 wild turkeys is white or mostly white-colored. They all agree that hens make up a much higher percentage of white turkeys than toms. That means a full-strutting adult smoke-phase gobbler is quite rare.
There is a strong social expectation that unmarried people from opposite genders should not show interest or affection towards one another alone in public. Therefore, people date/socialise in groups or at functions where they will not draw public attention. People generally date with the hope of marriage in mind.
The Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnolinguistically related populations originating from Central Asia, were first documented in western Eurasia in the fourth/fifth century BCE and currently live in Central, Eastern, Northern, and Western Asia as well as in parts of Europe and in North Africa.
No, the Kurds are not Persian. They are a separate ethnic group. However, their language is an Indo-European language that is related to the Farsi language spoken by Persians. This makes them more closely related to each other than either group is to Arabs.
Arabs. Arabs in Turkey number around 2 million, and they mostly live in provinces near the Syrian border, particularly the Hatay region, where they made up two fifths of the population in 1936. However, including recent Syrian refugees, they make up to 5.3% of the population. Most of them are Sunni Muslims.
Modern Turkish is the descendant of Ottoman Turkish and its predecessor, so-called Old Anatolian Turkish, which was introduced into Anatolia by the Seljuq Turks in the late 11th century ce. Old Turkish gradually absorbed a great many Arabic and Persian words and even grammatical forms and was written in Arabic script.
