1. TURKIC COUNTRIES, HISTORY, AND
LANGUAGES
ESHBAEV GAYRAT

2. CONTENT
• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
• MISUNDERSTANDINGS
• COUNTRIES. INDEPENDENT AND NON-INDEPENDENT
COUNTRIES
• SIMILARTIES AND DIFFERENCES & CULTURE
• CONCLUSION

3. INDEPENDENT TURKIC COUNTRIES
MEMBERS OF THE "ORGANIZATION OF THE TURKIC STATES"

4. INCLUDING NON-INDEPENDENT TURKIC COUNTRIES
"TURKIC VS. TURKISH" MISUNDERSTANDING

5. TURKIC NATIONS POPULATION IS OVER 200 MILLION
• Turkey – 85 million
• Uzbekistan – 35 million
• Kazakhstan – 19 million
• Azerbaijan – 11 million
• Hungary – 1o million
• Kyrgyzstan – 7 million
• Turkmenistan – 6 million
• Turkic people living in Russia – 13 million
• Turkic people living in China – 12 million
• Turkic people living in Iran – around 20 million (mainly Azerbaijans)
• Turkic people living in other countries

6. TURKIC NATIONS'
FLAG AND SYMBOL

7. TURKIC
ALPHABET

8. HISTORY
• Some have proposed that the Turkic peoples originated in
Siberia, others in Manchuria (current northern China). These
scholars point out the linguistic connections between the
early Turkic language and those of East Asia. In any case, the
Turkic peoples migrated to Central Asia about 4,000 years
before the present.

9. FIRST TURKIC KHAGANETE
(EMPIRE)
• Established at the end of 5th century

10. ISLAMIC INFLUENCE
Many reasons:
• Turkic nations were conquered by Arabs between 7 and 8th centuries
• Arabs recruited Turks to serve in their army to spread the Islam
• Turkic nations expanded into the south and occupied Iran in the late of 9th
century by creating Ghaznavids and Seljuk empires one after another
• The Silk Road highly influenced to spread the Islam by trading

11. MONGOL INVASION
• Mongols invated the Central Asia on 12th century. So,
Turkic nations were conquered by Mongols.
• Mongols' empire crumbled at the end of 12th
century.

12. RECOVERING
Amir Temur's empire recovered the first Empire by uniting
again turkic nations in Central, South Asia, and turks living in
the Caucasus region.
Boburid's empire, which conquered almost all Indian
territory and ruled over the India till the invasion of British
Ottoman's Empire conquerred Constantinopole, Middle
East, North Africa, and the Balkans

13. TEMURID EMPIRE'S TERRITORY

14. BOBUR'S EMPIRE
MOST PEOPLE CONSIDER HIM AS
A MONGOL BECAUSE OF THE
FAMOUS GENGHIS
KHAN'S EMPIRE. HE HAD THE
MIXED BLOOD BUT HE DID NOT
CONSIDER HIMSELF AS A
MONGOL. THE EMPIRE WAS
TOTALLY BASED ON TURKIC
CUSTOM.

15. OTTOMAN'S EMPIRE

16. NEW INVASION

17. RUSSIAN INVASION
• Russian occupied the Central Asia
between 18th and 19th centuries and
kept their influence till 1991.
• Controlled the region for more than
1 century.

18. MISUNDERSTANDINGS
Invasion of Arabs, Mongols, and Russians towards the
Turkic nations habitating areas made people to
misunderstand the Turkic nations.

19. TURKIC LANGUAGES

20. 3 MAIN TURKIC LANGUAGE FAMILIES
1) Oghuz languages: Hungarian, Turkish, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, and Azerbaijans living in the North and
South Iran, Gagauz people living in Moldova and South-east Ukraine
2) Kipchak languages: Kazakh, Karakalpak, Kyrgiz, Nogai, Kumyk, Karachay-Balkar, Crimean
Tatar, Urum, Krymchak, Karaim, Tatar, Bashkir (most of their countries territory in Russia)
Karluk langues: Uzbek, Uyghur, Yakut, Dolgan, Tuvan, Tofa, Khakas, Dukhan, Northern Altai, Chuvash

21. SIMILARITIES IN THE LANGUAGES

22. RELIGION
• Turkic people follow Islam (Sunni theology) and Christianity
(mostly Orthodox or Catholic theologies). The members of
Islam than Christianity members predominate among Turkic
nations.

23. SOVIET EMPIRE COLLAPSED IN 1991.
THIS IS THE CURRENT MAP OF TURKIC NATIONS AND THEIR
COUNTRIES