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Anatolian Turks
Armenian SSR
asia
Author_Margaret Bainbridge
Badakhshan
Badakhshan Province
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Census
central
Central Asian studies
comparative ethnic relations
crimean
diaspora communities research
empire
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ethnolinguistic identity
Favouri Te
Great Seljuks
Hindu Kush Mountains
language
language and identity in Eurasia
Largest Language Group
minority language groups
Muslim World
nation
North Western Afghanistan
North Western Region
Odd
ottoman
Present Day Mongolia
Present Day Xin Jiang
Revolutionary Govern
Securing Government Employment
sociolinguistic conflict
speakers
SSR
tatar
Turkic Language
Turkic Peoples
Turkic Speakers
Turkish
Turkish Women
Volga Tatars
Western Thrace
Product details
- ISBN 9781138986237
- Weight: 790g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 1993. From time to time the outbreak of hostilities in some part of the world or other brings to the notice of the Western media peoples of whose very existence they have previously been unaware. We may mention two such which have made headlines in 1989 and 1990: the Turks of Bulgaria and the Azerbayjanis of the Soviet Union and Iran. Too frequently, however, in interpreting such events, observers tend to attribute the conflict to the one factor which happens to be fashionable at the time; currently that factor seems to be religion. Too rarely do they observe other differences which may exist between the parties in conflict and which may in the end prove more potent; for instance, that the factor most likely to set people apart from each other as they go about their daily business may not be religion at all, but language. As an example of this, too few have pointed out that the Azerbayjanis of the Soviet Union differ from the neighbouring Armenians not only in religion but also in language, and that this contrasts with the situation over the border where the Azerbayjanis of Iran differ from neighbouring Iranians only in language, in speaking Turkic, for they share with the majority Persian population their Shi'ite Muslim faith. This volume holds a collection of essays on the Turkic people in different countries.
