<P> The Arab Muslims identified Banu Qantura' (بنو قنطوراء) as the Turks . They were described as the Banu Qantura' people with wide faces and small eyes, or a people with flat faces and small eyes they have faces like shields covered with leather, </P> <P> A Hadith is found in Abu Dawud--Narrated AbuBakrah: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: Some of my people will alight on low - lying ground, which they will call al - Basrah, beside a river called Dajjal (the Tigris) over which there is a bridge . Its people will be numerous and it will be one of the capital cities of immigrants (or one of the capital cities of Muslims, according to the version of Ibn Yahya who reported from AbuMa'mar). At the end of time the descendants of Qantura' will come with broad faces and small eyes and alight on the bank of the river . The town's inhabitants will then separate into three sections, one of which will follow cattle and (live in) the desert and perish, another of which will seek security for themselves and perish, but a third will put their children behind their backs and fight the invaders, and they will be the martyrs . </P> <P> The Turkomans observe a difference between their children from Turkoman mothers, and those from the Persian female captives whom they take as wives, and the Kazakh women whom they purchase from the Uzbeks of Khiva . The Turkomans of pure race enjoy full privileges, while the others are not allowed to contract marriages with Turkoman women of pure blood, but must choose themselves wives among the half - castes and Kazakh captives . </P> <P> As there exists a great animosity between the Yamuds and Goklans they do not intermarry, although they reckon themselves of equally noble lineage . The same hatred is extended to the Tekke Turkomans, whom the Goklans and Yamuds, moreover, look upon as their inferiors, being, according to their genealogies, the descendants of a slave - woman, whilst they are the posterity of a free - woman . (p. 71) </P>

Member of a turkic speaking minority in russia