Turkic peoples

Turkish authorities have arrested two Chinese citizens in relation to the mass shooting at a night club in Istanbul on New Year's Eve, reported BGNES.

The detainees are Uyghurs - a Turkic ethnic group in northwest China.

It is possible to travel from China's Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region in the east all the way to the Adriatic shores in the west speaking nothing but Turkish. Most people living in this vast geography belong to the Ural-Altaic language family, sharing common historical, religious, cultural and ethnic ties.
 

I was wandering around in a historic caravansary a little outside Kashan in Iran, a Turkic city that dates back to antiquity. A group of students, from the University of Tehran, I later found out, were sightseeing at the historical building just like me. They were having a conversation among themselves.

Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı has pointed to mid-2017 for a referendum on the island for the citizens of both of the communities to decide whether or not to accept a peace deal aimed at being reached before the end of 2016. 

One of the most productive periods in the history of the region from Iran to Anatolia in modern Turkey corresponds to the rule of the Seljuks and their immediate successors, from 1038 to 1307. 

A new but old page was opened in northern Cyprus during the weekend with National Unity Party (UBP) leader Hüseyin Özgürgün declaring that he has forged a coalition government with the Democratic Party-National Forces (DP-UG) with the support of four independent deputies.

National Unity Party (UBP) head Hüseyin Özgürgün has started his duty as the new prime minister of Turkish Cyprus, after the country's president approved of the new coalition government cabinet in the wake of the last government's collapse earlier this month.

Why did the left-right grand coalition of tiny Turkish Cyprus collapse? There are lots of tales but the short answer is quite simple: Gross mismanagement. At a time when Cuba has changed, the Turkish Cypriot left has insisted on remaining loyal to a Stalinist anti-private sector doctrine.

A Turkish man wanted by Russia for allegedly killing one of the two pilots of the Russian jet downed by Turkey near the Turkish-Syrian border in late 2015 has appeared at a funeral ceremony in Istanbul, saying he would go back to Syria.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has hosted delegations from the Bay?rbucak Turkmens and the Syrian Turkmen Assembly in separate meetings, while the United Nations' special envoy for Syria also paid a brief visit to the Turkish capital.