Turkic-speaking

Examples

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• The Gagauz are a predominantly rural population of Orthodox Christian Turkic-speaking peoples.

  Academic text (2006)

• In Moldova and Eastern Europe, it is widely acknowledged that Gagauz migrated from Bulgaria in the 19th century, and as a result, it is popularly believed that they are Turkic-speaking Bulgarians.

  Academic text (2006)

• Azerbaijani national-identity politics differs considerably from identity politics in the other Central Asian Turkic-speaking countries.

  Academic text (2000)

• How a Turkic-speaking population found itself here and why they are Orthodox, and not Muslim as most Turkic speakers, are much-contested questions.

  Academic text (2006)

• Although the linguistic tie to Turkey warmed relations with that country initially, it has proved to be no more of a bond than with any other Turkic-speaking neighbor.

  Academic text (2000)

• Ottoman Minister of War Enver Pasha had big hopes of spreading his rule to those Turkic speaking regions of Russia and Central Asia after the war.

• A Turkic-speaking people, like the Uighurs and Tuvans, follow shamanic practices and regularly visit a small "holy tree" within Por-Bajin's enclosure.

  Academic text (2010)

• Also like the Kyrgyz, the Kazakhs are a historically Muslim and Turkic-speaking mix of indigenous Turkic tribes and nomadic Mongols.

  Academic text (2000)

• One example of this comes from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China's far-flung northwest, home to many ethnic minority groups, including the people known as the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking, now predominantly Muslim, population living in East and Central Asia.

  Academic text (2009)

• The Gagauz people are a Turkic-speaking group living mostly in southern Moldova.

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