Istanbul has the largest Kurdish population in the world. However, as the person before said me they are between 25-35 million Kurds inhabiting the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. They make up the fourth-largest ethic group in the a Middle East.
<span>Mercury's distance at inferior conjunction is 0.61 AU
Looking at a table of orbits, Mercury has an orbital distance of 0.39 AU. So the inferior conjunction will be:
1 AU - 0.39 AU = 0.61 AU</span>