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The Qizilbash were largely Turcoman, another Turkic group with its own language.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
But they are also suspicious of Allawi, who won strong backing among the Sunni Arab and Turcoman inhabitants of the disputed territories claimed by the Kurdish region.
From Time • Apr. 21, 2010
Turkey � as well as leaders of the city's ethnic Turcoman and Arab populations � fear this will decisively tip the electoral balance to give the Kurds control over the contested city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ethnically Syria is a melting pot of Arab, Kurd, Turcoman, Circassian, Armenian and a score of forgotten peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem.
From Time Magazine Archive
We rode alone; our arms were our only protection; and we tended our own horses, except when relieved from the duty by the hospitable inhabitants of a Turcoman village or an Arab tent.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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