Demographics of Turkey of Congress, there is a whole chapter about Kurds in Turkey where it is stated that "Turkey's censuses do not list Kurds as a separate ethnic group. Consequently, there are no reliable data on their total numbers. In 1995 estimates of the number of Kurds in Turkey is about 8.5 million" out of 61.2 million, or 13% of the population at that time. Turkish government statistics show that Kurdish women in Turkey give birth to about four children, more than double the rate for the rest of the Turkish population. Prime Minister Erdogan stated that Kurds could become a majority
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"),