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Turkish Australians or Australian Turks (Turkish: Avustralya Türkleri) are Turkish people who have immigrated to Australia. However the term may also refer to Australian-born persons who have Turkish parents or who have a Turkish ancestral background.Turks first began to emigrate to Australia from the island of Cyprus for work in the 1940s and then again when Turkish Cypriots were forced to leave their homes during the Cyprus conflict between 1963 and 1974.

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