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Table 4 Stock of international immigrants in Turkey by country or region, 2005–2012b

From: Shifts in the global migration order and migration transitions in Europe: the cases of Turkey and Russia

Country/Region

Estimates/Year

Bulgaria

51,787 (2008) (International Strategic Research Organization / Uluslararası Stratejik Arastirmalar Kurumu (ISRO/USAK) 2008)

Greece

6191–62,463 (Içduygu and Sert 2009, IOM 2008)

div. African countries

50000a

Macedonia

33,242 (2005)a

Germany

20,000–120,000

Russia

30,000–100,000a

Afghanistan

< 30,000, incl. 9000 refugeesa

Ukrainian

20,000 (MFA 2012)

Armenia

10–20,000, 72,000 (2002)a

Iran

13,667 (2005) (IOM 2008), 8624 (only refugees in 2010) (OMID 2010)

Azerbaijan

10,879 (2005) (Içduygu and Sert 2009)

UK

7940 (ISRO/USAK 2008)

Georgia

6868 (2005) (IOM 2008), 13000a (2010)

Iraq

5927 (permits, 2006) (Içduygu and Sert 2009)

Philippines

5000 (Independent Balkan News Agency (IBNA) 2013)

Moldova

4674 (2006) (Içduygu and Sert 2009); > 8600 (2008)

Total (lowest/highest est.)

262,132 / 506,578

  1. aOwn estimate based on various sources quoted in this article
  2. bCompiled from the sources quoted in this article or given in the table; numbers are not comparable as they were collected or estimated in different years