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Turkish people or Turks ( Turkish: Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still live across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire.
Iranian, Indian, Arabic, and Anatolian expansion. Turkic peoples and related groups migrated west from present-day Northeastern China, Mongolia, Siberia and the Turkestan -region towards the Iranian plateau, South Asia, and Anatolia (modern Turkey) in many waves. The date of the initial expansion remains unknown.
Turkic peoples, any of various peoples whose members speak languages belonging to the Turkic subfamily of the Altaic family of languages. They are historically and linguistically connected with the Tujue, the name given to the nomadic people who founded an empire stretching from what is now Mongolia to the Black Sea.
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Turkish people or Turks ( Turkish: Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus. In addition, centuries-old ethnic Turkish communities still live across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey’s government has made the ethnic origins of its citizens available online. The results are shattering the myth of racially pure Turkishness.
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Turkey is a presidential republic within a multi-party system. [206] The current constitution was approved by referendum in 1982, which determines the government's structure, lays forth the ideals and standards of the state's conduct, and sets out the state's responsibility to its citizens.
Aug 22, 2023 · Turkey country profile. 22 August 2023. Once the centre of the Ottoman Empire, the modern Republic of Turkey was established in 1923 by nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Straddling the ...
