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Torbeş are a Muslim community speaking Macedonian, settled in the Balkan region, particularly in the western and south-western parts of North Macedonia. Known in literature as “Macedonian Muslims,” this group possesses a religious and cultural identity distinct from ethnic Macedonians. Indeed, the term “Macedonian Muslim” has been rejected by the Torbeş themselves, and it has been argued that this label functions as an assimilationist tool aimed at incorporating them into a Slavic ethnic identit

Teleüt Turks are a small but deeply rooted Turkic people, currently residing primarily in the Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation, as well as in the Altai Krai and the Altai Republic. Their population is steadily declining, and they are engaged in a struggle to preserve their cultural identity. Today, this community numbers approximately 2,500 to 3,000 individuals and has undergone numerous political and sociological transformations throughout history within the harsh geography of Siberia.