Turkic Peoples
Steppe-descended peoples from Anatolia through Central Asia to Siberia, linked by the Turkic language continuum.
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Kipchak10 groups
Oghuz7 groups
Oghuz branch6 groups
Karapapakhs
Turkey (Kars, Ardahan, Igdir provinces) and Iran (Sulduz plain around Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan province), with smaller communities in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan; ancestral home on the Borchali plain and Debed valley of the South Caucasus
Küresünni
Highland districts of Tunceli, especially Pertek and Çemişgezek, with communities in Erzincan, Bingöl, Elazığ and Muş, eastern Turkey; substantial diaspora in Istanbul, western Turkish cities and Germany.
Shahsevan
Ardabil province in northwestern Iran, between Mount Sabalan and the Moghan plain on the Aras river border with Azerbaijan; smaller settled communities near Saveh.
Kipchak branch3 groups
Argyn
Central and northeastern Kazakhstan: the Saryarqa uplands and Irtysh basin around Karaganda, Pavlodar, Semey and Akmola, with smaller numbers in Russia and Uzbekistan.
Siberian3 groups
Other Turkic groups12 groups
Altai
Altai Republic in southern Siberia, Russia, with smaller communities in Altai Krai and Kemerovo Oblast, and a few thousand in western Mongolia and Xinjiang, China
Karluks
Originally the Black Irtysh and Tarbagatai country west of the Altai (eastern Kazakhstan and northern Xinjiang, China); from the 8th century Zhetysu, the Chu and Talas valleys, and the western Tian Shan (southeastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan), later reachin
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