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Photo of a Yakut Turk (Sakha) woman, 1883.

Yakuts are a Turkic ethnic group from Siberia. They are from the Siberian/North-East Branch of the Turkic Peoples. Their population is around half a million. They use Yakut and Russian languages. The majority of them practice Orthodox Christianity and a minority of them practice Tengrism.

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Photos of Turkish-Native American (Apache) actress Derya Arbaş, late 1980s.

Derya Arbaş Berti was born in Santa Monica, California in 1968 to a Turkish mother, Zerrin Arbaş and a Native American (Chiricahua Apache) father, Dehl Berti.

She made her debut in 1974 in the movie "Battal Gazi'nin Oğlu". Then, she moved permanently to Turkiye in 1983 when she was 15 years old, and acted in the movie "Kuyucaklı Yusuf". She played in several movies in the following years. She also starred in the cult film "Gece, Melek ve Bizim Çocuklar" as "Serap".

She died of a heart attack in 2003 in Los Angeles, California and was buried in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery based on the Apache tradition.

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Photo of a Kuloğlu Turk, photo taken in French Algeria, 19th century. 

His father was a Turkish man and his mother was a Malian woman from the Tombouctou Region.

Kuloğlu/Koloğlu/Köroğlu/Kouloughli Turks are a Turkish ethnic group from North Africa. They are mixed people whose fathers are Turks and mothers are North African women (and sometimes Sub-Saharan, like in the case of this gentleman); mostly Algerian, Tunisian and Libyan. This term was and is not used for the Egyptian Turks, however some sources classify Egyptian Turks to be Kuloğlu Turks as well.

Kuloğlu Turks mostly practice Islam and speak Arabic with many Turkish loanwords. Their population, or rather, Kuloğlu Turks plus the local population of North African countries whom are of Kuloğlu Turk origin is estimated to be around 2,000,000-6,000,000. The numbers increase if Egyptian Turks are counted as a part of the Kuloğlu Turks as well.