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Although | Although the former Ottoman Empire endorsed Islam as the state religion, Türkiye has been a secular state since 1928, with freedom of religion enshrined in its constitution. The population is 98% Muslim, most of them Turks, while Muslim Kurds constitute about 17% of the total population. Two-thirds of the Muslims in Türkiye belong to the Sunni branch of Islam, with the other third as Shiites. The Kurds are also Sunni Muslims. | ||
Christians now make up less than 2% of the population; these include Greek Orthodox, Armenians (Gregorians,) Armenian Apostolic, Nestorians (Chaldeans), Syrian Uniats, Greek Uniats, Roman Catholics and Protestants. The Jews in Turkey number only some 20,000. | |||
==Catholic Records== | ==Catholic Records== | ||
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==Jewish Records== | ==Jewish Records== | ||
* | *SephardicGen.com: [http://www.sephardicgen.com/turkey_sites.htm Sephardic Resources - Türkiye, Greece, and the Balkans] | ||
For more information about how to obtain records for Jewish denominations | *'''1800-1900s''': [http://www.dankazez.com/istanbul/ Istanbul Jewish Genealogy Project] at Dankazez.com; index; contains close to 100,000 genealogical documents, including marriage and burial records | ||
*[https://farhi.org/genealogy/index.html Les Fleurs de l'Orient] - genealogy database of major Sephardic families in the Ottoman Empire and beyond | |||
For more information about how to obtain records for Jewish denominations see [[Jewish Records]]. | |||
==Orthodox Records== | ==Orthodox Records== | ||