ABSTRACT
The Epilogue provides a summary of the origins and history of the Turkic peoples. It highlights the thesis that the history of the Turkic peoples was a history of separate peoples with their own formative histories and identities, which involved the Turkicization of various Indo-European, Uralic, and Mongolic groups, not that of a single, unilinear ethnolinguistic entity. It also discusses some contemporary issues pertaining to the modern Turkic-speaking nations and their role in modern affairs.
