 Another instance of Arab presence in Nowadays Turkey, is the settlement of Arab tribes in the 7th century in the region of Al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia), that partially encompasses Southeastern Turkey.Among those tribes are the Banu Bakr, Mudar, Rabi'ah ibn Nizar and Banu Taghlib.According to a Turkish study based on a large survey in 2006, 0,7% of the total population in Turkey were ethnically Arab.