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Why is Turkey not considered an Arab country?
Turkey is not an Arab country, and Turkey is a Turkic country. The other Turkic countries are Azerbeijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhistan, Kırgızistan, Uzbekistan. Turkic countries are located in Central Asia, whereas Arabic countries are located in North Africa and the Middle East. Turkish people originated in Central Asia.
Is Turkey considered an Arab country?
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.
What makes an Arab country?
An Arab can be defined as a member of a Semitic people, inhabiting much of the Middle East and North Africa. The ties that bind Arabs are ethnic, linguistic, cultural, historical, nationalist, geographical, political, often also relating to religion and to cultural identity.
Can Turks and Arabs understand each other?
Mutual intelligibility between Turkish and Arab speakers is limited to some very common words and religious terms. Native speakers of these languages can understand some of these loanwords and some religious terms, yet the similarity and mutual intelligibility are near zero between Turkish and Arabic.
Did the Ottoman Empire speak Arabic?
Educated Ottoman Turks spoke Arabic and Persian, as these were the main non-Turkish languages in the pre-Tanzimat era. In the last two centuries, French and English emerged as popular languages, especially among the Christian Levantine communities.
Is Ottoman Empire Arabic?
The empire was dominated by the Turks but also included Arabs, Kurds, Greeks, Armenians and other ethnic minorities. Officially the Ottoman Empire was an Islamic Caliphate ruled by a Sultan, Mehmed V, although it also contained Christians, Jews and other religious minorities.
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