of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language
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Turkic \Turk"ic\, a. Turkish.
They should be running themselves: we do not have any desire to run those countries. What about a Turkic commonwealth, an economic commonwealth? Not for the time being.
Official population figures for 1989 show that the Soviet Turkic nations are continuing to grow at a rapid rate.
We don't want a war.' The Chechens, a Moslem Turkic people, deeply resent Moscow's 140 years of occupation.
They speak a Turkic language and are traditionally farmers and shepherds.
Turkey and central Asia's Turkic republics yesterday ended a two-day summit in Istanbul with pleas for negotiated settlements to regional conflicts and improved trade and infrastructure links.
The Gagauz speak a Turkic language and traditionally work as shepherds and farmers.