Tatars or sometimes Tartars (not to be confused with the sauce) refer to Turkic groups in Central Asia: the Volga Tartars, Crimean Tatars, Afghan Tatars, Siberian Tatars, and Lipka Tatars.

Tatars once dominated Crimea ... “extremism” in the Muslim-dominated areas in the North Caucasus and the Volga River region. Dzhelyal recalled a conversation with a Chechen man who pleaded ...