What is Turkic peoples?
{{Redirect|Turkic|text=You may be looking for [[Turkish people]], the people of [[Turkey]].}}{{Infobox ethnic group | image = Map of Independent Turkic countries.svg | caption = Current independent Turkic states in red | population = Approx. 140–160 million<ref>Brigitte Moser, Michael Wilhelm Weithmann, Landeskunde Türkei: Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur, Buske Publishing, 2008, p. 173</ref><ref>Deutsches Orient-Institut, Orient, Vol. 41, Alfred Röper Publushing, 2000, p. 611</ref> or over 170 million{{sfn|Yunusbayev et al.|2015|p=}} }} The '''Turkic peoples''' are a group of peoples. They speak languages belonging to the [[Turkic languages|Turkic family]]. A Turkic person is called a ''Turk'' and mainly come from these independent states: [[Kazakhstan]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Turkey]], [[Kyrgyzstan]] and [[Turkmenistan]].<ref>https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/785506</ref> However there are Turks in many places. Today, most people in [[Central Asia]] are Turks. Many Turks live in Siberia, the [[Caucasus]] area, the [[Middle East]], and [[Eastern Europe]]. Turkic people can sometimes understand each other during communication because of their language being connected to [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] and having the same words. ==Pictures== <gallery> File:SB - Altai man in national suit on horse.jpg|[[Altai people|Altai]] man in national suit on horseback. File:Azerigirls.JPG|[[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] girls in traditional dress. File:Young bashqorts.jpg|[[Bashkirs|Bashkir]] boys in national dress. File:Russian Winter Festival London 2007 115.jpg|A Chuvash woman [[dancer]] in traditional dress. File:Gagauz-children.jpg|Young and old [[Gagauz people]]. File:Karachay patriarchs in the 19th century.jpg|Old [[Karachays|Karachay]] men in the 19th century. File:Хакасы.JPG|[[Khakas people]] with traditional instruments. File:SB - Inside a Kazakh yurt.jpg|[[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] family inside a [[Yurt]]. File:At the On-Archa village in Naryn district. Kyrgyzstan.