This is just a humble attempt to organize and simplify some of the complexities of today's global transformation. If we don't understand the postmodern mindset and the changing worldviews of influential leaders and visionaries, we can't really prepare for the impact of this social revolution -- both on faith and evangelization.
Definition of Turk. 1 : a member of any of numerous Asian peoples speaking Turkic languages who live in a region extending from the Balkans to eastern Siberia and western China. 2 : a native or inhabitant of Turkey.
The first known mention of the term Turk (Old Turkic: Tueruek tÃ¼rÃ¼k Or Koek kÃ¶k Tueruek, TÃ¼rÃ¼k: or, Tueruek TÃ¼rÃ¼k: chinese/çªå¥ (old  tibetan ), Duruggu: Durgu, Meaning Origin (Pinyin): [tÅ«jue-tÅ«juÃ©]) middle chinese guangyun TÊ°uot kueot kÃ¼ot applied to a turkic Group was in reference to. the goektuerks gÃ¶ktÃ¼rks in the 6th centuryhe Turkic peoples of Central Asia were not organized in nation-states during most of the 20th century, after the collapse of the Russian Empire living either in the Soviet Union or (after a short-lived First East Turkestan Republic) in the Chinese Republic.