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Macedonian Turks outside of Štip area who are Yörüks are turkified Torbeshi or not even turkified but Torbeshi who are self declared Turks (many of them don't know Turkish language).
Number of Torbeshi in Macedonia on the census in 1981 officially was only 39 555. Their number should be quite bigger, up to 100 000. Majority of Torbeshi in the last several decades are self declared Turks.
Albanization of "Turks" in recent time in western Macedonia is happening, but anyway that people are just Torbeshi. Real Turks from eastern Macedonia are not affected with albanization and never will be. Torbeshi who never declared themselves as Turks are also affected with albanization in recent years.
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