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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Turkish people | | | |  Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Turkic peoples - NomenclatureIn modern Turkey, a distinction is made between "Turks" and the "Turkic peoples": the term Türk corresponds specifically to Turkish people and culture, while the term Türki refers generally to modern Turkic peoples and cultures.
Some claim that this distinction is an artificial one, and one not made by speakers of Turkic languages elsewhere. It is sometimes claimed further that much of the separation is the result of Stalinism, and that prior to the founding of the Soviet Union, the term "Turkish" had been used to desc ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Turkic peoples - Physical appearance Some historians consider "Turkic" as a linguistic categorization, rather than a strictly ethnic characterization. This is unsurprising, since Turkic peoples often differ greatly from one another in physical appearance, reflecting the abundant migrations, conquests and settlements across Eurasia. Therefore, the already considerable problems involved in any racial classification are made much more difficult in the case of the Turks.
The majority of Turkic peoples, from former Ottoman lands to western China, and from the Siberian plains ...
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| | | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Turkic peoples - Geographical distribution and ethnic division The distribution of peoples of Turkic cultural background ranges from Siberia where the Yakut reside, across Central Asia, to Eastern Europe. Presently, the largest groups of Turkic people live throughout Central Asia -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, in addition to Turkey. Additionally, Turkic peoples are found within Crimea, the Xinjiang region of western China, northern Iraq, Iran, Israel, Russia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, the Balkans Moldova, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and former Yugoslavia. ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Mythology and folklore The story of Great Floods find reference in most of the regions of Asia. The Hindu mythology tells about an avatar of God Vishnu in the form of a fish who warned Manu of a terrible flood. In ancient Chinese mythology Shan Hai Jing, the Chinese ruler Da Yu had to spend ten years to control a deluge which swept out most of the ancient China and was aided by the goddess Nuwa who literally "fixed" the "broken" sky through which huge rains were pouring.
The regions of Asia has a rich variety of mythical fauna. Japan has Nekomatas, cats wit ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Turkic peoples - History It is generally believed that the first Turkic people were native to Central Asia. Some scholars consider the Huns as one of the earlier Turkic-Mongol tribes. The main migration of Turkic peoples occured between the first and tenth centuries AD, when they spread across most of Central Asia and into Europe and the Middle East.
The precise date of the initial expansion from the early homeland remains unknown. The first state known as "Turk", giving its name to the many states and peoples afterwards, was that of the Gokturks (gog ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Philosophy Asian philosophical traditions originated in India and China, and has been classified as Eastern philosophy covering a large spectrum of philosophical thoughts and writings, including those popular within India, Persia, Mid East and China. The Indian philosophy include Hindu and Buddhist philosophies. They include elements of non-material pursuits, whereas another school of thought Carvaka, which originated in India, and was propuned by Charvak around 2500 years before, preached the enjoyment of material world.
Rise of Islam led to emergence of various philosophical schools of thou ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Religions Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated in India, a country of South Asia. In East Asia, particularly in China and Japan, Confucianism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism and Shinto took shape. Other religions of Asia include Islam, Bahá'í Faith, Shamanism practiced in Siberia and Animism, practiced in the eastern parts of the Indian subcontinent.
Islam originated in Arabia in the 7th century with the emergence of the prophet Muhammad. Today 18% of Muslims live in the Arab world, and 30% in the South Asian region of Pakistan, India and ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Festivals & celebrations Asia has a variety of festivals and celebrations. In China, Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Moon Festival are traditional holidays, while National Day is a holiday of the PRC. In Japan, Japanese New Year, National Foundation Day, Children's Day, The Emperor's Birthday, and Christmas are popular. Buddhist festivals include Vesak and Asalha Puja.
In the mostly Islamic Middle East countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc., people must fast in the holy month of Ramadan. In Israel, H ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Literature
Culture of Asia - Classical.
In Tang and Song dynasty China, famous poets such as Li Bai authored works of great importance. They wrote shī (Classical Chinese: 诗) poems, which have lines with equal numbers of characters, as well as cí (词) poems with mixed line varieties. Early-Modern Japanese literature (17th–19th centuries) developed comparable innovations such as haiku, a form of Japanese poetry that evolved from the ancient hokku (Japanese language: 発句) mode. Haiku consists of ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Languages Asia is a continent with great linguistic diversity, and is home to several language families and many language isolates. A majority of Asian countries have more than one language that is natively spoken. For instance, according to Ethnologue over 600 languages are spoken in Indonesia while over 100 are spoken in the Philippines. Korea, on the other hand, is home to only one language.
The main language families found in Asia, along with examples of each, are:
Austro-Asiatic: Vietnamese, Khmer
Austronesi ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Art A rich imagery of Asian art is revealed in several spheres, including its sculpture, paintings and handicrafts; music, dance, drama, and other performing arts.
Culture of Asia - Visual arts.
Asia is the home of two major traditions of calligraphy. In the far east is the Chinese and Japanese (called Shodo or Shuuji) traditions of brush calligraphy.
As found in most forms of east asian art, Chinese and Japanese calligrapy typically t ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Mythology and folklore The story of Great Floods find reference in most of the regions of Asia, the earliest known reference being in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Most of the accounts and characters of such a deluge are comparable to Noah. Thus, the Hindu mythology tells about an avatar of God Vishnu in the form of a fish who warned Manu of a terrible flood. In ancient Chinese mythology Shan Hai Jing, the Chinese ruler Da Yu had to spend ten years to control a deluge which swept out most of the ancient China and was aided by the goddess Nuwa who literally "fixe ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Food & drink Asia, the largest continent on the earth, is home to people of hundreds of nationalities, and ethnic and social groups. This diversity is also reflected in Asian cuisine, in the use of basic ingredients as well as in the style of preparation and cooking techniques.
Many diverse foods are present in Asia. In East Asia, rice is a staple food, and it is mostly served steamed or as a porridge known as congee. China is the world largest producer and consumer of rice. Fried rice is not as common in East Asia as in Asian cuisine restaurants ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Demographics of Turkey - Some facts Population: 69,660,559 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 26% (male 9,232,439; female 8,897,135)
15-64 years: 67.3% (male 23,806,367; female 23,053,536)
65 years and over: 6.7% (male 2,140,242; female 2,530,840) (2005 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.09% (2005 est.)
Birth rate: 16.83 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate: 5.96 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migratio ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Asia - Architecture Until contact with European influence, some cultures would build renewable buildings. For example, in Japan, the temples of Kyoto and Nara might be over 1,000 years old in style, but be completely rebuilt, in the same style, every few generations or so. The primary reason for this was that the materials might be wood and thatch rather than stone and tile.
Other cultures might build from stone, but the jungles and forests ...
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Turkic peoples - Geographical Distribution The Turkic peoples have many different branches, and their total population is around 150 million. Roughly half of these belong to Turks of Turkey, dwelling predominantly in Turkey proper and formerly Ottoman-dominated areas of Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East; as well as in Western Europe, Australia and the Americas as immigrants. The other half of the Turkic peoples are concentrated in Central As ...
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| | | | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Demographics of Turkey - 1965 linguistic census Questions asked: "What is your mother tongue ?" and "What is the second language which you are in command of best other than your mother tongue ?". The total population was 31,391,421.
Source: Heinz Kloss & Grant McConnel, Linguistic composition of the nations of the world, vol,5, Europe and USSR, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 1984, ISBN 2763770444
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| | | | | Turkish people: Encyclopedia II - Demographics of Turkey - Current trends in situation of minorities Modern Turkey was founded by Mustafa Kemal as secular (Laiklik, Turkish adaptation of French Laïcité), i.e. without a state religion, nor discrimination of minorities.
The concept of "minorities" has only been accepted by the Republic of Turkey as defined by the Treaty of Lausanne of 1924 and thence strictly limited to Greeks, Jews and Armenians, only on religious matters, excluding from the scope of the concept the ethnic identities of these minorities as of others, including Christian Assyrians of various denominatio ...
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