Edit request from Maksudfsa10, 9 March 2011 

Just a minor edit. I've added Azerbaijanis to the list that describes turks (in the first paragraph) as we are the second largest turkic ethnic group.

  

The Turks (or Turkics) are peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, Mongolia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family.Turkic people, Encyclopædia Britannica, Online Academic Edition, 2010 They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds. The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the  Azerbaijanis, Chuvashes, Kazakhs, Tatars, Kyrgyzs, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Qashqai, Gagauzs, Yakuts, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Karakalpaks, Karachays, Nogais and as well as past civilizations such as the  Kumans, Kipchaks, Avars, Turgeshs, Seljuks, Khazars, Ottomans, Mamluks, Timurids, and possibly the Xiongnu and Huns."Timur", The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001–05, Columbia University Press.Encyclopaedia Britannica article: Consolidation & expansion of the Indo-Timurids, Online Edition, 2007.