Kurdish population there are significant minorities adhering to Shia Islam (especially Alevis), Yazidism, Yarsanism, Christianity and Judaism. According to a report by Turkish agency KONDA, in 2006, out of the total population of 73 million people in Turkey there were 11.4 million Kurds and Zazas living in Turkey (close to 15.68% of the total population). The Turkish newspaper Milliyet reported in 2008 that the Kurdish population in Turkey is 12.6 million; although this also includes 3 million Zazas. According to the World Factbook, Kurdish people make up 18% of Turkey's population (about 14 million, out of 77.8 million people). Kurdish sources put
Azerbaijani population ethnic composition of the population according to the 2009 population census: 91.6% of the population in the Republic of Azerbaijan are Azerbaijanis. According to the World Factbook, Azerbaijani people make up 90.6% of Azerbaijan's population in 1999. According to the statistics presented by the World Bank Data, the total number of Azerbaijani population in 2017 was 9,862.430 million people. Azerbaijanis of Dagestan are Azerbaijani branch of the indigenous peoples of Dagestan Republic. Based on the latest census Russian Federation in 2010, 130,919 person Azeris live in Dagestan. which makes them the region's sixth largest ethnic group and 4.5% of its