Demographics of Turkey are available for the Kurdish population, because the Turkish government has outlawed ethnic or racial censuses. An estimate by the CIA World Factbook places their proportion of the population at approximately 18%. Another estimate, according to Ibrahim Sirkeci, an ethnic Turk, in his book "The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany", based on the 1990 Turkish Census and 1993 Turkish Demographic Health Survey, is 17.8%. Other estimates include 15.7% of the population according to the newspaper "Milliyet", and 23% by Kurdologist David McDowall. The Minority Rights Group report of 1985 (by Martin Short
Ethnic groups in Baltimore In September 2014, immigrants from Israel were the forty-eighth largest foreign-born population in Baltimore. In 1920, 19,320 foreign-born White people in Baltimore spoke either the Hebrew language or the Yiddish language. In September 2014, the Hebrew language was the thirty-second most commonly spoken language in Baltimore, after the English language. In 1920, 8 foreign-born White people in Baltimore spoke the Turkish language. In September 2014, immigrants from Turkey were the eighty-seventh largest foreign-born population in Baltimore. Ethnic groups in Baltimore There have been various ethnic groups in Baltimore, Maryland and its surrounding area since it was founded as a British