Turkification, Turkization, or Turkicization (Turkish: Türkleştirme) describes a shift whereby populations or places receive or adopt Turkic attributes...

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Turks began migrating into Anatolia in the 11th century, starting the Turkification process. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ruled Anatolia until the Mongol...

establish a foothold in the region. Thus, the process of Anatolia's Turkification began under the Seljuk Empire in the late 11th century and continued...

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new hospital in al-Bab. Some locals describe these developments as "Turkification" of the region. However, many locals have accepted or even welcomed...

groups. Later on Iranization of this native population and subsequent Turkification since the Seljuq era occurred. The bulk of the population today are...

due to the British bombing. Due to Ottoman and Turkish policies of Turkification and ethnic cleansing, the city's Christian population declined from...

The Republic of Turkey has an official policy in place that denies the existence of the Kurds as a distinct ethnicity. The Kurds, who are a people that...

Ottomanism and Islamism in favor of Turkish nationalism. He advocated a Turkification of the Ottoman Empire, by promoting Turkish language and culture to...

rights during his presidency. His government carried out a policy of Turkification, trying to create a homogeneous, unified and above all secular nation...

Azerbaijan region of northwestern Iran, and resided there prior to the Turkification of the region during the Seljuk Empire. Some researchers believe that...

number of which settled down in the Caucasus and Iran, resulting in the Turkification of the local population. Over time they converted to Shia Islam and...

undermining Byzantine authority in Anatolia and allowed for its gradual Turkification. Son of the general Constantine Diogenes and a prominent member of the...

power in a coup d'état in January 1913 and began to pursue a policy of Turkification, which gradually angered non-Turkish subjects. Hussein started to embrace...

of the Committee of Union and Progress started a program of forcible Turkification of non-Turkish minorities. By 1914, the World War I broke out, and the...

population, during the period of the Sassanian dynasty. A subsequent Turkification of the population occurred after the region's conquest by the Seljuq...

the remaining parts of Anatolia and gradually enabling the region's Turkification. The Seljuk Empire united the fractured political landscape in the non-Arab...

Lughāt al-Turk with this meaning. It began to be used as a surname when Turkification attempts started shortly after the foundation of the Republic of Turkey...

as a significant contribution to Turkey's sociopolitical process of Turkification. During the Ottoman Empire in 1911, the Committee of Union and Progress...

Byzantine authority in Anatolia and Armenia, and allowed for the gradual Turkification of Anatolia. Many Turks, travelling westward during the 11th century...

political élite tied to the single-party régime", imposing a policy of Turkification, including the removal of functionaries of "Kurdish race" in Turkish...

orchestrated by the Committee of Union and Progress as part of their Turkification policies. Today, Eastern Armenia is mainly inhabited by Armenians, Azerbaijanis...

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line with what had begun in 1913 – accomplished Talaat's demographic Turkification on the beginning of World War I. Resuming Talaat's Pontus policy of...

measures aimed at the Turkification of the local economic, social, and cultural life. A long-term policy of ethnic cleansing and Turkification of the economy...

Transjordan became a stopover for pilgrims. Increasing policies of Turkification and centralisation adopted by the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the...

Islamic conquests and the Turkic expansion result in the Arabization and Turkification of significant areas where Indo-European languages were spoken, but...

spelled Karaso, Karassu, Karso, Karsu and Karasso. The form Karasu is a Turkification of his name, meaning literally 'dark water'. Emmanuel's nephew was the...

and the Mongolic peoples; many were subjected to Slavicization and Turkification. Modern Iranian peoples include the Baloch, the Gilaks, the Kurds, the...