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
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