A FINAL TECHNICAL NOTE
A FINAL TECHNICAL NOTE
Until now one issue has been studiously avoided, namely how to render the word "Turk" in various languages. It follows from the discussion above the use of the word "Turk" can be a sensitive issue for an Uzbek or a Kazak or a Tatar. To make matters worse, in Turkish there has been no tradition distinction between different groups in the usage of the word "Turk", in other words there used to be only one word "Turk" and it was for the Turkish government "Turk hukumeti" as well as for the Turkic world "Turk dunyasi", Kazan Tatars "Kazan turkleri", Kazaks "Kazak turkleri", etc. (More recent adjectives such as "turki" have come to be used as well, but the problem persists.) As a result, many well-intentioned individuals reject the distinction in English usage between Turkish and Turkic, Russian "turetskii" and "tiurkskii" (a distinction also maintained by probably all Turkic groups that formed a part of the USSR), while others defend the distinction with equal passion. Given the surprising level of sentimental attachment to one view or another by members of T-N and T-L, some members have instituted the term "Turk*" as a neutral term to sidestep the English debate over Turkish versus Turkic (a debate which is still difficult for many of our friends from Turkey to fully understand). It is a small step that some have taken in the interest of better understanding among the various groups.
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