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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
Chinese and Turcoman traders from Leh and Lhassa, Yarkand and Bokhara, with scared faces, were getting their goods together and invoking their mysterious gods.
From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John
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