The Gagauz are an unusual people, as they are ethnically close to Muslim Turks but are mostly Christian in religion. Numbering around 150,000, they are also Moldova’s second largest ethnic ...

Gagauzia has a population of about 155,000 people, mostly ethnically Gagauz, Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christians. Many locals fear that Chisinau's EU-integration agenda masks an intention to unite ...

The Gagauz of Ukraine have adopted some customs from the local Bulgarians, ... mostly women. The men leave for work,” says Draganov. Elena Vasilioglo, the director of the Alexandrovka House of Culture ...

Gagauz-Yeri Governor Mihail Formuzal (Courtesy Photo) COMRAT, Gagauz-Yeri, Moldova; April 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- As policymakers search for lasting solutions to Kosovo and unresolved conflicts in the ...

The struggle to save Gagauz, a Turkic tongue used by dwindling numbers of people in an ethnic enclave of Moldova, reflects the emotional power of language loyalties across the former Soviet Union.

Russia on Wednesday condemned the arrest of the leader of Moldova's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority, saying it was a blatant example of trying to use the methods of a police state to neutralise ...

Interestingly, the detailed study of microsatellite haplotypes revealed some sharing between the Gagauz and Turkish lineages, providing some support of the hypothesis of the "Seljuk origin" of the ...

EU Sanctions Moldova’s Regional Gagauz Leaders Ahead of Key Vote Country holds referendum on path to EU later this month Leader of autonomous region was sanctioned by US in June ...