 Iranian Azerbaijanis have emigrated and resettled in large numbers in Istanbul, and many Iranian Azerbaijani students who came to study in Turkey have stayed there after the completion of their studies.Finally, starting from the early 1990s tens of thousands of immigrants from the newly independent Azerbaijan have made their way to Turkey due to economic reasons, settling mostly in big cities.According to the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, between 2003 and 2013 alone over 15,000 immigrants from Azerbaijan received Turkish citizenship.