Yet as many had come from the Turkic tribes in the north.

The Uighurs are a Turkic-language speaking group from China's western Xinjiang region.

Eleven percent of the population speak Turkic languages, primarily Uzbek and Turkmen.

The Uighur are a Turkic-language speaking group that calls China's western Xinjian region home.

The Uighurs are a Turkic-language speaking group that calls China's western Xinjiang region home.

Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to China's far western region of Xinjiang.

The region is populated by an ethnic minority Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking largely Muslim people.

The region is populated by the ethnic minority Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking largely Muslim people.

Many Uighurs, a Muslim Turkic people, resent the growing Han presence in the region.

The riots made anything to do with Uighurs, a Muslim, Turkic speaking people, politically sensitive.

The Islamic civilization had Arab, Turkic and Malay subdivisions.

The people native to the region are Turkic, with the main ethnic group being the Uighurs.

Moscow has a defence alliance with Armenia, while Ankara backs its ethnic Turkic kin in Azerbaijan.

Moscow has a defense alliance with Armenia, while Ankara backs its ethnic Turkic kin in Azerbaijan.

Central Asian peoples, mostly Turkic, are not part of the ethnic or cultural majority in either country.

Yet even in this village, dominated by people from the Kumyk Turkic-speaking ethnic minority, some appear sympathetic.