Editing Politics of Tajikistan (section)

== Tajiks in Uzbekistan ==
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{{Main|Uzbekisation}}
{{Further|Tajiks|Basmachi movement|Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic}}

{{citation needed span|In recent years, some Tajiks in eastern [[Uzbekistan]] (especially [[Samarkand]] and [[Bukhara]] and the surrounding areas) have called to join [[Tajikistan]].|date=March 2022}} [[Tajiks]] are a main minority in [[Uzbekistan]], and historically Tajiks lived in a larger area in [[Central Asia]] than now.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thediplomat.com/2016/09/the-tajik-tragedy-of-uzbekistan/|title = The Tajik Tragedy of Uzbekistan}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|doi = 10.1017/S002510031300011X|title = Bukharan Tajik|year = 2014|last1 = Ido|first1 = Shinji|journal = Journal of the International Phonetic Association|volume = 44|pages = 87–102|s2cid = 232344116|doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/469f38f2c.html|title=Refworld &#124; Chronology for Tajiks in Uzbekistan}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23333538|jstor = 23333538|title = To be an Uzbek or Not to be a Tajik? Ethnicity and Locality in the Bukhara Oasis|last1 = Finke|first1 = Peter|last2 = Sancak|first2 = Meltem|journal = Zeitschrift für Ethnologie|year = 2012|volume = 137|issue = 1|pages = 47–70}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-tajik-language-under-pressure-in-ancient-samarkand|title=Uzbekistan: Tajik Language Under Pressure in Ancient Samarkand &#124; Eurasianet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iwpr.net/global-voices/repairing-broken-tajik-uzbek-relationship|title=Repairing Broken Tajik-Uzbek Relationship}}</ref>