Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar called on central Asian Turkic states to “be more careful”, amid a wave of anger in Turkey after five central Asian countries signed a joint declaration with ...

Tatar said on Thursday that these references ... who are an integral part of the Turkic world”. “We expect the Turkic world to support the Turkish Cypriots’ struggle for rights, freedoms ...

most of these diverse populations assimilated to the Turkic-speaking Cuman-Kipchak majority, forming the Crimean Tatar identity. By the 15th century, the Tatars had cast off Mongol rule and allied ...

Their mother tongue is Crimean Tatar, a Turkic language. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) classifies this language as “endangered” since its ...

Currently 89 percent of all 7.3 million Tatars live in Russia. That includes the Tatars in Crimea. Tatars are a Turkic people originally from Central Asia. Many generations of intermarriage have ...

Tatar said on Thursday that these references ... Tayyip Erdogan addresses an informal summit of the Organisation of Turkic States in Budapest Erdogan had said on Wednesday that theTurkic world ...