[1][2] Cilician Arabic speakers in Turkey come from four different religious groups: Sunni Muslims, Alawites, Christians (including Greek Orthodox and Catholics), and Jews.
Due to pressures against minority languages, younger generations of the Arabic-speaking communities increasingly use Turkish as their mother tongue.
In 1996, Grimes estimated 500,000 speakers of North Levantine Arabic in Turkey.
[3] In 2011, according to Procházka there were 70,000 Çukurova Arabic speakers in the Adana and Mersin provinces and people under 30 years old had completely switched to Turkish.
[4] In 2011, Werner estimated 200,000 Antiochia Arabic speakers in Hatay.