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Eleven percent of the population speak Turkiclanguages, primarily Uzbek and Turkmen.
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Their Turkiclanguage is distant from Chinese.
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Some Turks have a strong sense of shared cultural and religious heritage with the mainly Muslim Uighurs, who speak a Turkiclanguage.
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China worries that Uighurs, who speak a Turkiclanguage, have gone to places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq to fight for militants.
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Many Uighurs, who speak a Turkiclanguage, chafe at restrictions on their culture and religion, though the Chinese government insists it grants them broad freedoms.
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Military sources said a number of ethnic Uighur militants, who operate alongside Uzbeks and share a similar Turkiclanguage with them, have also been killed.
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Military sources said a number of ethnic Uighur militants, who operate alongside Uzbeks and share a similar Turkiclanguage with them, had also been killed.