Although the city had an Armenian community in the past, ethnic Turks became the overwhelming majority in the city of Gaziantep after the Armenian Genocide. 4 years after the establishment of Turkey as an independent country, there were 195 thousand Turks, 16 thousand Kurds, and 3 thousand Arabs in the whole province, including the city, according to the 1927 census done by the new Turkish government, which placed the Kurdish population at 70 percent of the population of Diyarbakır, an overwhelmingly Kurdish city. According to the relatively dubious 1965 census concerning the Demographics of Turkey, when 48 percent of the population of the province lived in the city of Gaziantep, overall registered speakers of Turkish as mother tongue were 96.1 percent, while the registered Kurdish-speakers were 3.7 percent in the city (and the province).