Azeri vekilden ´Türkçe ortak dil olsun´ önerisi

Turkish may become the common language of the Turkic world

Turkish can be accepted as a common language of the Turkic

world, ," the chairman of the committee on culture of Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan,

Nizami Jafarov, said today at the conference "Cultural integration of the

Turkic world: common Turkic alphabet and language", reports Trend.

"The Turkish language already has the function of a common language - more

than 100 million people speak Turkish," said Jafarov.

He said the existence of a Turkic language does not imply

that any of the  Turkic-speaking people would lose the wealth of their

own language. "This is a common means of communication to the Turkic

peoples to interact with each other not using any other foreign but

the Turkic language," said Jafarov. According to him, the issue of

Turkic language for many years was discussed at the Congress of Turkic

peoples.

"The unity of the Turkic world is created not for any military

cooperation, not against someone, but in order to promote peace in the

region"  said Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic.  Creating

a common language and alphabet of the Turkic peoples has long been a

historical necessity, said at the event the Deputy Sevinj Huseynova

Source ; Vestnik Kavkaza News.

Azerbaijanis may agree, their language is VERY close to Turkish anyway (just look at the titles: Milli Majlis in Azeri: Milli is the same in Turkish, Majlis is Meclis in Turkish)

But I doubt that ministers from Central Asian countries that have more of a Farsi root to their language (e.g. Tajikstan or Afghanistan) would agree.

What do TC classmates from those countries think?

Marionin it is written "the common language of the Turkic world"  and Tajikistan and Afghanistan are not Turkic countries. So no problem

 The 40 percent of Tajikistan population is Tajik Turks which is 3.500.000 people. The rest is majorly Persian origin.

This is the flags from their website (WATP). 

You are right, Umut_Umut, the Tajik and Afghan flags are not there ... I had interpreted Turkic World as meaning Central Asia.

Some interesting flags here ... who can name them all?

I´ll start ... Bottom left is Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Above that is Turkey. To the right of Turkey is Azerbaijan.

Who´s next ...

If we could tag them it would be easier hehe

   KAZAKİSTAN

     TÜRKMENİSTAN

   KIRGIZİSTAN

 ÖZBEKİSTAN

   DOĞU TÜRKİSTAN

 DAĞISTAN CUMHURİYETİ [KUZEY KAFKAS]

 ÇUVAŞİSTAN CUMHURİYETİ [VOLGA]

 ALTAY CUMHURİYETİ [SİBİRYA]

 SAHA -YAKUTİSTAN CUMHURİYETİ

                                                                                           [UZAK DOĞU ]

  TUVA CUMHURİYETİ [SİBİRYA]

 HAKASYA CUMHURİYETİ [SİBİRYA]

 GAGAVUZ BÖLGESİ [MOLDOVA]

  NOGAY TÜRKLERİ

 MESKET-AHISKA TÜRKLERİ [GÜRCİSTAN]

Indeed!

Also note that, due to increasing popularity of Turkish TV series, the Azeri youth can speak İstanbul Turkish.

That may also be the case with Turkmens. I watched a Turkmen girl speaking good İstanbul Turkish on TV a couple of days ago. She revealed that she had not been to Turkia until recently from which I concluded that she must have already developed her current level outside of Turkia.

 May not just be TV influence... the Gülen schools are teaching Turkish the world over from Nigeria to UK, from California to the former CIS.

 Any more information on these, Tunci?

 Tunci ... thanks for the ones you found. I got stuck on 2 that you didn´t post:

1. Red one with crescent and star in top right hand corner, flag is in between Cyprus and Turkmenistan in this picture

2. Blue one with funny yellow symbol. Flag is to the left of Nogay Türkleri (which is one I didn´t know: congrats to you!)

 You mean on " Nogay Türkleri " or in general ?

 Mazzer, That one [ [1.] Red one] I couldnt find either. But this is the link I searched them from, may be you can have a look ; http://www.halukakcam.com/Bayraklar/Bayrak1.htm

Second one is Flag of the Crimean Tatar Turks but the first one hmmmm i actually dont know.

NOGAIS [ NOGAY TURKS]  --> NOGAY TÜRKLERİ

The Nogai people (also written as Nogay or Noghai) are a Turkic ethnic group in Southern Russia: northern Dagestan and Stavropol Krai, as well as in Karachay-Cherkessia and the Astrakhan Oblast; undefined number live in Chechnya. They speak the Nogai language and are descendants of various Turkic tribes, mainly Kipchaks, who formed the Nogai Horde.

Present inhabitations

In the 1990s, 65,000 were still living in the Northern Caucasus, divided into Ak (White) Nogai and Kara (Black) Nogai tribal confederations. During the Soviet period, they did not have administrative-territorial recognition, which retarded their national development. Nogais have lived within the territories of Daghestan, Chechnya, and Stavropol district. In Daghestan, they concentrated in the Khasavyurt region. Without legal recognition, the Nogais of North Caucasus are under the danger of assimilation to neighbouring Russian, Circassian and Kumuk people. The Kara-Nogays continued as nomads until the establishment of Soviet power.

A few thousand Nogais live in Dobruja(today in Romania), in the town of Mihail Kogălniceanu (Karamurat) and villages of Lumina (Kocali), Valea Dacilor (Hendekkarakuyusu), Cobadin (Kubadin).

An estimated 90,000 Nogais live in Turkey today, mainly settled in Ceyhan/Adana, Ankara and Eskisehir provinces. The Nogai language is still spoken in some of the villages of Central Anatolia - mainly around the Salt Lake, Eskişehir and Ceyhan. To this day, Nogais in Turkey have maintained their cuisine: Üken börek, kasık börek, tabak börek, şır börek, köbete and Nogay şay (Nogai tea - a drink prepared by boiling milk and tea together with butter, salt and pepper).

Some Nogais are also living in Amman, Jordan, mainly in an agriculture area called Wadi El Sir. They immigrated from Turkey to Wadi El Sir during the Ottoman era to support the Turkish army in the late 19th century. The Jordanian Nogais now communicate in Arabic, since Arabic was adopted as the official language of Jordan instead of Turkish. Jordanian Nogais mixed with Arab Jordanians and became part of the society.

The Junior Jüz, or the Lesser Horde of the Kazakhs, occupied the lands of the former Nogai Khanate in Western Kazakhstan. They originate from the Nogais.

You forgot to add the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nogais

Wouldn´t it be better to add a starter page where you can find much about Turkic peoples?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_peoples

 YES, that is a better way..Eyvallah Si ++...

List of Turkic dynasties and countries

The following is an incomplete list of historical dynasties which were at some time Turkic or the country they ruled were Turkic-speaking and of modern countries with significant Turkic populations or with an official Turkic language. The Turkic peoples have established at least 116 states, khaganates, beyliks, empires, nomadic empires and sultanates in history up to today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turkic_dynasties_and_countries