80 million Turkish speakers outside of Turkey sounds like a pretty extreme guess and merely 55 million in Turkey itself sounds way too low First off how many monolingual speakers speak a language other than Turkish Not all that many one would imagine I know for a fact that I ve met many Kurds in Sweden that barely speak Kurdish but speak Turkish fluently And I was under the impression that the figure of Turks in Germany was closer to 1 million which is still a lot I say we should bring the estimates down to very conservative figures unless someone provides reliable source To me the total 100 million figure sounds very high