High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Turks in Azerbaijan are Turkish people who live in Azerbaijan. According to the 1999 Azerbaijani population census, there were 43,400 Turks living in Azerbaijan (the next census will be held in 2009 and published in 2010). This number includes both Meskhetian Turks, who have largely immigrated to Azerbaijan in the 1950s-1960s and the 1990s, and Turks from Turkey who have settled in Azerbaijan since the 1990s, and have become Azerbaijani citizens. As dual citizenship is not recognized by the Republic of Azerbaijan, only Azerbaijani citizens are counted in the population census and no distinction is made between Meskhetian Turks and Turks from Turkey who have become Azerbaijani citizens, when classified in the population census as Turks. The 16.000 expatriate Turkish citizens living in Azerbaijan are mainly temporary residents, 11.000 of whom are employed in the booming petrolium and service industries in and around the capital Baku. Данное...