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Americans in Turkey Number 30,100 by Birth and 9,621 by Passport

Istanbul's Bosphorus skyline, where Americans in Turkey divide between long-resident dual nationals and a thinning recent-arrival cohort.

Americans in Turkey show up in two different counts that don’t match. About 9,621 hold US citizenship as registered residents. Roughly 30,100 are US-born. The gap is the story. Both numbers come from the Turkish Statistical Institute’s address-based population register. One counts current passport-holders. The other counts birthplace, regardless of which passports a person carries […]

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