What is "cihanbeyli"

Cihanbeyli ( Ottoman Turkish: Esbikeşan) is a town and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 75,871 of which 18,306 live in the town of Cihanbeyli.

Sunni Turks form the majority in the city of Cihanbeyli, but the villages (sub-districts) of Cihanbeyli are inhabited mostly by ethnic Sunni Kurds from Reshwan and Canbeg tribes with a significant minority of Bulgarian Turks, Uzbek Tatars and Circassians.

The Cihanbeyli population has, since 1960s, emigrated to Western Europe to seek a better life and later bring their families. The Cihanbeyli community is supposed to make up for one third of the Kurdish diaspora in Denmark and smaller Cihanbeyli communities can be found in Sweden, Switzerland and Germany.