Minorities in Turkey Minorities in Turkey Minorities in Turkey form a substantial part of the country's population, with at least an estimated 30% of the populace belonging to an ethnic minority. While the Republic of Turkey, following the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, recognizes Armenians, Greeks and Jews as ethnic minorities, this legal status is not granted to Muslim minorities, such as the Kurds, which constitute the largest minority by a wide margin (13–18%), nor any of the other minorities in the country. The amount of ethnic minorities is suspected to be underestimated by the Turkish government. Ethnic Albanians, Pontic Greeks, Kurds, Arabs, Bosniaks,
Pahari people Pahari people The Pahari people, (Hindi: पहाड़ी; "Pahāṛī"; ) also called Pahadi and Parbati, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group of the Himalayas living in Nepal and are a majority of the population of the Himalayan regions of India (Himachal Pradesh and northern Uttar Pradesh(now Uttarakhand ). In Nepal, the Paharis constituted the single largest ethnic group at about 20,000,000, or three-fifths of the Nepalese population through the 1990s. Most Indo-Aryan Paharis, however, identify as members of constituent subgroups and castes within the larger Pahari community such as Rajput, Bahun, Chhetri, Thakuri and Dalits. The name Pahari derives from "pahar" ("पहाड़"),