A Note from the SOTA's Founder:
On the usage of the Term Turkish/Turkic World
Turkic people do not distinguish between Turkish and Turkic.
For most of them, there is only one Turkish people from Sakha to the Balkans/Europe,
who speaks different dialects of one Turkish Language. The distinction
between Turkish and Turkic is artificial and is a fabrication of Stalin
Era politics of divide et Impera.
"It should be noted that in no Turk dialect is there
any such differentiation as Turkic and Turkish. This distinction is a new
introduction into the politics of nationalities, and exists in some Western
languages as in Russian ..."
"Only since the soviet language reforms especially
of the 1930s, have the dialects been asserted to be individual and unrelated
Central Asian languages" They are, with exception of Yakut and Chuvash,
which are considered as separate languages in Turkish Language family,
mutually intelligible."
I have insisted long in usage of Turkish instead of Turkic.
But meanwhile I have ascertained that this distinction is so widespread
that to insist only creates confusion. Only for this reason we shall make
in our English contributions the same distinction.
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