|ref1 = <ref name="CIAonline" /><ref name="auto1">{{Web kaynağı | url = http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2012/9/turkey4166.htm | title = Over 22.5 million Kurds live in Turkey, new Turkish statistics reveal | publisher = | accessdate = 26 July 2015 | arşivurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20160408215503/http://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2012/9/turkey4166.htm | arşivtarihi = 8 Nisan 2016}}</ref><ref name="KHRP">{{cite book |title=The Kurds: Culture and Language Rights |first1=Kerim|last1=Yildiz |first2=Georgina|last2=Fryer |publisher=Kurdish Human Rights Project |date=2004}} Data: 18% of Turkey, 20% of Iraq, 8% of Iran, 9.6%+ of Syria; plus 1–2 million in neighboring countries and the diaspora</ref>