Where are Turkic languages spoken across Europe and Asia?

The Turkic languages are distributed across a vast geographic expanse, stretching from the Balkans in eastern Europe to the Great Wall of China, and from central Iran to the Arctic Ocean.1

The core distribution of these languages includes:

• Western Section: Asia Minor, northern Iran, and Transcaucasia.1
• Central Section: West Turkistan (east of the Caspian Sea) and East Turkistan (beyond the Tien Shan).1
• Northern Section: Extending from western Russia across northern Siberia.1

Countries where these languages are spoken include Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Romania, and Lithuania. Additionally, due to recent industrial migration, Turkic languages are now present in several western European countries.1