[Timedrifter]

Ukrainians would never admit to Turkish blood because there isn't any.

Cossacks are partly Turkish, or so I have always read.

[eleni121]

NO they are not related to Turkmen. They are not related to the kazaks either. I believe their name Cossack comes from the Turkish meaning wanderer but that's it. The Cossacks were fierce turk fighters. And they sided with the Whites thus suffering greatly when the Bolsheviks took power. Great people and are making a comeback. Enjoy this fascinating work of art.

In 1676 the Turkish Sultan Mohammed IV offered the Zaporozhye Cossacks who lived near the Dniepr rapids to become his subjects. They wrote him a mocking letter spurning his offer