What is "turkic"

Usage examples of "turkic".

A Turkic dialect, Azerbaijani is spoken by several million people in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan and the contiguous areas of Iran and Afghanistan.

Moslem republics also went against another Kemalist principle: noninterference in the affairs of neighboring states on behalf of Turkic minorities.

Turkic people in Azerbaijan and the former Soviet Central Asian republics can be seen as a way of countering the negative repercussions of the Gulf War by trying to find new foreign policy outlets for Turkey and revive its strategic importance to the West, especially the United States.

Turkic-speaking Azeris account for as much as a quarter of the citizenry, and this does not include other Turkic sectors of the population, such as the Turkomens in the northeast, near the former Soviet border, and the Qhashqha’is in the southwest, near Shiraz and the Persian Gulf.

Replacing fixed and abrupt lines on a flat space would be a shifting pattern of ecoregions and buffer entities, like the Kurdish and Azeri buffer entities between Turkey and Iran, the Turkic Uighur buffer between Central Asia and inner China (itself distinct from coastal China), and the Turkic, Pathan, and Punjabi regions between Russia and the heartland of India.

We had a man in from the university here, the comparative linguistics department -- you probably know him, Malmstrom's his name -- and he said it sounded to him like an Altaic language, maybe Turkic -- is that right, Turkic?

Stalin’s assault on Turkic unity in Central Asia and his imposition of the Cyrillic alphabet on his Turkic subjects—in order both to Slavicize them and to cut them off from fellow ethnics in Afghanistan, northern Iran, and Turkey—were examples of this hatred.

Persians, Mongol hordes, and Turkic khans would exchange control of it over the medieval centuries.

Whereas Qom signified Islam in all its bleak austerity, this tomb and its many pilgrims reeked of Sufi mysticism and the paganized superstitions of Turkic nomads.

But their ethnic pride, like that of the other Turkic peoples in Central Asia, as well as of the Persianized Tajiks, never conformed with statehood.

For within Turkestan are not only Turkic peoples such as Turkomans, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, and Uighurs, but large pockets of Persian Tajiks and Caucasian tribes, and much smaller islands of Balti Tibetans and mongoloid races.

It was these Uzbeks in the early sixteenth century who deposed Babur, the great Turkic poet and the last of Tamerlane’s successors, who consequently fled Samarkand to found the Moghul dynasty in northwestern India.

But neither the Persian Tajiks nor the Turkic Uzbeks were like the Persians in Iran or the Turks I had met in Turkey.