Only one Christian was enumerated in 1945, being from the Protestant denomination.[12] In the same census, Kurdish and Turkish were the first language for 87.8% and 11.4% of the population, respectively.[13] The Jewish population in province left for Israel shortly after 1948.[14] In the 1950 census, 89.5% of the population spoke Kurdish as first language, while the second largest first language was Turkish being 9%.[15] In the subsequent census of 1955, Kurdish constituted the first language for 88.4% of the population and Turkish for 11.5%.