Sentence examples for turkic from inspiring English sources
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Of or relating to this language group or the people who speak it.
Moldovan authorities have also had to contend with separatist rumblings from a Turkic minority, the Gagauz, and granted them special autonomous status in a 1994 agreement.
Those with perhaps most to fear are the Tatars, Turkic Muslims who make up 12% of the population.
When it was suggested to Mr Ecevit, back in the late 1970s, that he might form a coalition with the MHP, he is reputed to have denounced the idea as being like "planting a bomb in my brain".Banned with other parties by the generals in 1980, the MHP won a new lease of life when the Soviet Union's collapse led to the re-emergence of Turkic states to the east.
If it were to do so the Tatars, the indigenous Turkic people of Crimea, would fight on the side of the Ukrainian army.The clash of civilisationsOn March 4th, in his first public comments since the crisis broke, Mr Putin ludicrously denied that the troops on the ground were Russian forces.
Mari activists have suffered beatings, and one suspicious death.Worse, the Finno-Ugric minorities are not as robust as their Turkic counterparts, Mr Heinapuu says.
These were sealed in 1993 after Armenia occupied large chunks of ethnically Turkic Azerbaijan in a bloody conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.Make friends with Armenia, firstNot only would Turkey score valuable credit with the EU and the United States, but mutual trade would blunt the influence of the hawkish Armenian diaspora.
It seems plain that Turkey wants to be in on any military action that America's allies take.As usual, it is making the most of itself as a geopolitical pivot on which the Balkans, the Middle East and the oil-rich Turkic-speaking republics of ex-Soviet Central Asia, such as Uzbekistan, converge.
Iran sees a western-backed, pan-Turkic conspiracy behind such talk while Azerbaijan's authoritarian secular leadership sees Islamic plots behind every minaret.
If Kazakhstan's government does not handle such feelings with care, it might find itself the focus of pan-Turkic wrath, or even facing its own problem with domestic terrorism.
Your reviewer had to dodge blockades and angry crowds of Han Chinese protesters to reach the neighbourhood in the south of the city where the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs live.
The group sympathetic to NATO generally seeks to further Turkish interests in the area and to extend them to the Turkic-speaking world in ex-Soviet Central Asia, and has gathered a batch of like-minded countries under the acronym GUUAM, standing for Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
