"Exploring the Turkic world, part one
The Turkic world has held an interest for me during the past few years.
My exposure to it has been mainly that of books and movies, with a smattering of music thrown in. There has been a spate of books covering the Turkic peoples through the lens of travel writing, history and politics. Spanning western China to the former Soviet republics of Central Asia (e.g. Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan) to Turkey, the Turkic cultures cover a vast patchwork of tribes, ethnicities and countries, all having the Turkic family of languages in common."
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