Turkey does have an ethnic Arab Turkish population in the South East of the country. But these Arabs are mainly found in the cities of Hatay, Adana, Mersin, Iskenderun, Gaziantep, Mardin, Mus, Siirt, Sirnak, Sanliurfa, Batman and Bitlis, but apart from these cities , there aren't many Arabic speaking Turks. You may find Arabic speaking people from these cities who move to work in the other cities, but Arabic in general is not widely spoken in Turkey. In fact Arabic was actually banned for a period and many of the young generation of Turkish Arabs only speak Turkish. But recently the Turkish Arabs have been given more rights as far as preserving their Arabic language is concerned. There are an estimate of 800,000-1,000,000 Turkish Arabs in Turkey. But do not expect Arabic to be spoken by Turks in Istanbul, Ankara , Izmir, Trabzon or any other areas which are not populated by the Turkish Arabs. English is the second language of most Turks. Although Kurdish is widely spoken in Turkey because of the large ethnic Kurdish population in the country.
All Arabic neighbors? Only Iraq and Syria are Arabic countries who border Turkey. Turkish language is the main language. Kurdish which is belongs to Iranian language families is spoken in east by Kurds.
Firstly, Turkey has eight neighbouring countries (with land borders), of which two are Arabic-speaking. So your comment about 'all the Arabic speaking neighbors' (sic) isn't really accurate.
The main language of Turkey is Turkish, which is a Turkic language and not even closely related to Arabic. The second most common one is Kurdish, which is an Indo-Iranian language and also not related to Arabic. The native speakers of those two languages add up to ca. 96.5% of the population.
Arabic is spoken as mother tongue by a small minority, less than 1.5%, and mainly on a narrow strip by the southeastern border with Syria and Iraq.
Neither is Arabic a common foreign language spoken by Turks. The most common ones are English, German, French and Russian (in that order), and Arabic is spoken to any degree of fluency by at most 1%.
So no, Arabic is not common by any definition - in fact there are more Arabic speakers in both France and the USA than there are in Turkey.
We speak Turkish but in south eastern Turkey there are languages as Turkish, Kurdish and Arabic. Mostly near the borders you can find different languages
No, the language in Turkey is Turkish, with regional variations, naturally. You'd have no trouble getting by with English in many places, and German in rural areas. A lot of Turks speak German quite well, they would have worked in Germany or Austria for a few years.
Not as much as you'd expect. The Turks have a strong culture and language of their own, most of them don't feel any need to speak anything except Turkish, and the government strongly supports Turkish. You'd probably find more that speak English as a second language than arabic.
Now because of the war in Syria we have more Arabic speakers and because of increasing trade and tourism Arabic is a high demanded language but there are not enough speakers ( In tourism especially in ?stanbul it means a well paid job for a non-skilled worker ) We have some Arabic community near the border we have with Syria but I havent met many of them in my life
not really, most of the Turkish population speaks generally only speak Turkish
there are some parts which are full of syrian people do speak arabic
