The area is predominantly populated by Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attack in a Chinese Muslim Region] Reference

In addition, isn't Geydar a common name in Turkic-speaking areas in and around Russia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GAIDAR/KHAIDAR.] Reference

The Turkic-speaking Muslims say they have long been repressed by the Chinese government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Uighur Brothers at Gitmo Released to Switzerland] Reference

Authorities now blame the assaults on Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim Uighur "separatists.".    From Wordnik.com.  [China Acts as Xinjiang Tensions Rise] Reference

There also have been antigovernment demonstrations among Turkic-speaking Muslims in the northwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Will Set Up Protest Areas During Olympics] Reference

Police said the assailants and their victims were Uighurs, members of a Turkic-speaking and largely Muslim ethnic group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attack in Xinjiang Kills Three] Reference

Five Uighurs, who are Turkic-speaking Muslims, went to Albania in 2006, and Bermuda took the four others earlier this month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Gitmo Detainees Resist Move to Palau] Reference

Mr. Dang says the language training the military gave him offers him some insight into the Turkic-speaking community around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [In China's Far West, Violence Is Just] Reference

The Chinese authorities here face an intermittent separatist movement of nationalist Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people who number nine million in Xinjiang.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummies of Urumchi Make the New York Times!] Reference

Sunday's blasts rocked the town of Kuqa, an important staging point for oil and gas exploration projects, in an area largely populated by Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Police Kill 10 Suspects] Reference

Cypress trees often represented weavers 'wishes for long lives and good fortune in the rugs like this one from the Turkic-speaking Afshar tribe from Afghanistan and Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decoding Imagery in Oriental Rugs] Reference

The remote western city has long been a flashpoint of ethnic tension between its predominantly Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs and China's main ethnic group, the Han Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Terms Assault a 'Jihad'] Reference

The Uighurs, who are Turkic-speaking Muslims in western China, have been cleared for release from Guantanamo but fear they will be tortured if they are turned over to China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Years and Counting!] Reference

The unrest grew out of protests by Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking and mainly Muslim ethnic group, against what they see as discrimination against them by the Han Chinese majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadly Ethnic Riots Pose Fresh Crisis for Beijing] Reference

The Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim people who number fewer than 10 million, and who have lived in the Xinjiang region for centuries, albeit under various identities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethnic Anger Festers Amid Calm in Urumqi] Reference

Turks share ethnic and cultural bonds with the Turkic-speaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Digital Times (CDT)] Reference

The Turkic-speaking Uighurs share cultural and ethnic bonds with Turks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Star] Reference

The Turkic-speaking Uighurs of Turkestan have created a rich culture and literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Turkic-speaking Uighur Muslims make up almost half of Xinjiang's 19 million inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Turkic-speaking population-94 percent of the residents when the PRC was founded in 1949-the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference

They are Turkic-speaking Muslims who say they have long been repressed by the Chinese government.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Xinjiang is also the homeland for 9 million Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gers), a Turkic-speaking group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

Following this, "Nakhchivan Declaration of the 9th summit of heads of Turkic-speaking states" was approved.    From Wordnik.com.  [APA] Reference

According to him, the ratification of such an agreement will deepen the cooperation among the Turkic-speaking states.    From Wordnik.com.  [APA] Reference

Buddhism is common among the Mongolian-speaking Buryats and Kalmyks as well as the Turkic-speaking Altays and Tuvans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Xinjiang's eight million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking group, have for decades accused the Chinese Government of oppression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canberra Times] Reference

Azerbaijani parliament has ratified Nakhchivan agreement on "Establishing Cooperation Council of the Turkic-speaking States".    From Wordnik.com.  [APA] Reference

Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Central Asian people, have accused China of decades of religious, cultural and political oppression.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

These are precarious times for Mr. Tohti, a brazenly outspoken spark plug of a man whose advocacy for China's Turkic-speaking Muslim.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference

Officials have said 156 people were killed as the Turkic-speaking Uighurs ran amok in the city, beating and stabbing the Han Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion] Reference

The defendants 'names provided by the newspaper appeared to be Uighur, the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority group that has long complained of Chinese repression.    From Wordnik.com.  [AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)] Reference

The defendants 'names provided by the Xinjiang Daily appeared to be Uighur, the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority group that has long complained of Chinese repression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Nearly 200 people died in July when Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking minority ethnic group, clashed with police during a protest in the Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi.    From Wordnik.com.  [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference