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TIL Turkology is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples. This includes ethnic groups from the Sakha in East Siberia to the Balkan Turks and Gagauz in Moldova.

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