Among them, the Tatars are the largest ethnic group, numbering over 5.3 million according to the 2010 census, and are of Turkic descent. The Tatars and Bashkirs, primarily residing in the ...

By adopting the term “Central Asia,” the Soviets further downplayed the region’s Turkic ethnic and historical unity. Today, Turkiye and the Turkic republics embrace the concept of the ...

"The Uyghurs are a Turkic, majority Muslim ethnicity native to China's far west Xinjiang region. After decades of conflict with Beijing over discrimination and suppression of their cultural ...