99% of Turkish population comprised of Muslims, majority of them Sunnites
According US State Department annual report on religious freedom, 99% of 70,5 million Turkish population are Muslims, majority of them Sunnites. Over 10-20 million are Alevites.
"The country is populated by about 500 thousand Shiites, 65 thousand Armenians, belonging to Armenian Gregorian church, 23 thousand Israelites, 15 thousand Christian Jacobites, 5 thousand Yezidis, 3300 Jehovah witnesses, 3000 "other protestants", 3000 orthodox Greeks, as well as Bulgarians, Nestorians, Georgians, Gypsies, Catholics and Maronites who's number is unknown, the report says.
"The country is populated by about 500 thousand Shiites, 65 thousand Armenians, belonging to Armenian Gregorian church, 23 thousand Israelites, 15 thousand Christian Jacobites, 5 thousand Yezidis, 3300 Jehovah witnesses, 3000 "other protestants", 3000 orthodox Greeks, as well as Bulgarians, Nestorians, Georgians, Gypsies, Catholics and Maronites who's number is unknown, the report says.
