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In 1995 Turkey's ethnic Arab population was estimated at 800,000 to 1 million, according to the US Library of Congress Country Study. The Arabs are heavily concentrated in big cities such as İstanbul, Ankara and along the Syrian border, especially in Hatay Province, which France, having at that time had mandatory power in Syria, ceded to Turkey according to the election polls in 1939. Arabs then constituted about two-thirds of the population of Hatay (known to the Arabs as Alexandretta or الإسكندرون al-Skanderûn), and the province has remained predominantly Arab. Arabs in Turkey are mostly Alawite Muslims, and most have family ties with the ʿAlawis living in Syria (see Alawis in Turkey). As Alawis, the Arabs of Turkey believe they are subjected to state-condoned discrimination. Fear of persecution actually prompted several thousand Arab Alawis to seek refuge in Syria following Hatay's incorporation into Turkey. The kinship relations established as a result of the 1939-40 emigration have been continually reinforced by marriages and the practice of sending Arab youths from Hatay to colleges in Syria. Since the mid-1960s, the Syrian government has tended to encourage educated Alawi to resettle in Syria, especially if they seem likely to join the ruling Baath Party. Image File history File links Circle-question-red. ... Languages Arabic other languages (Arab minorities) Religions Predominantly Islam Some adherents of Druze, Judaism, Samaritan, Christianity Related ethnic groups Mizrachi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Canaanites, other Semitic-speaking groups An Arab (Arabic: ‎); is a member of a Non-Semetic group of people whose cultural, linguistic, and in certain cases... The Great Hall interior. ... Hatay is a province of southern Turkey, situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and Syria to the south and east. ... Iskenderun, formerly known in the west as Alexandretta, is a city in the Turkish province of Hatay. ... Alawite is a Middle Eastern Syria. ... For the Alaouite dynasty of Morocco see:Alaouite Dynasty, for the former state now in Yemen see: Alawi (sheikhdom) The Alawi, also known as Alawites, Nusayris or Ansaris, are a Middle Eastern sect of Shia Islam[1][2] prominent in Syria The terms AlawÄ« and Alevi, although they share... Alawis in Turkey are the Alawite population living in the Republic of Turkey. ... Baath Party symbol Party flag The Arab Socialist Baath Party (also spelled Bath or Baath; Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي Ḥizb al-Ba`ṯ al-`ArabÄ« al-IÅ¡tirāki) was founded in 1947 as a radical, secular Arab nationalist political party. ...

There are also Arabs living along the border with Syria in the cities such as Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Mardin and Siirt. The Arabs in this part of the border consist of many Bedouin tribes placed there during the Ottoman Empire. Many of these tribes have blood ties to other Bedouins living in Syria, especially in the city of Ar Raqqah. However, Arabs in Turkey are mostly assimilated and view themselves as Turkish.^{[citation needed]} Gaziantep (Kurdish: , informally, Antep) is the capital city of Gaziantep Province in Turkey. ... Shows the location of the province and city of Åžanlıurfa. ... Buildings in an older section of Mardin Mardin is a city in southeastern Turkey. ... Siirt is the capital of Siirt Province in eastern Turkey. ... A Bedouin man resting on a hillside at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic ( ‎), a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralist groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via... Ar Raqqah (ﺍﻟﺮﻗﺔ; also spelled Rakka), city in north central Syria, capital of the Raqqah province, located on the north bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 km east of Aleppo. ...

The "Arabs" living in Urfa, Mardin, Diyarbak'r and other places in the "Haran ova" (the flat plain of Haran) are in majority, not the descendants of bedouin Arabs. They are most likely arabized "proto-Semites". Although the Bedouins also , small in numbers, have been there for thousands of years. The "sunni Arabs together with the Syriacs in the "plain of Haran" are most likely the original natives of the area. The Haran plain, is the birth place of Abraham. The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... The angel prevents the sacrifice of Isaac (Rembrandt, 1634) Abraham (Hebrew: , Standard Avraham Ashkenazi Avrohom or Avruhom Tiberian  ; Arabic: ,  ; Geez: , ) is a figure in the Bible and Quran who is by believers regarded as the founding patriarch of the Israelites and of the Nabataean people in Jewish, Christian and...

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• Mhallami

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