The Madjars or Madi-yar people are a Turkic ethnic group in Kazakhstan. They number about 1,000–2,000 and live mostly in the Kostanay Region. The Madjars have been linked onomastically to the Magyars (Hungarians) in Europe by proponents of Hungarian Turanism like Zsolt András Biró.
This claim is contested by Turkologist scholar Imre Baski, who translate Madjar as 'faithful Muslim'.
Imre Baski Turkologist:
"Madi-yar that proved to be a compound anthroponym (Madi[y]-yar) of Arabic-Persian origin. The paper also provides the explanation of the anthroponyms Aldi-yar (’Allah’s friend/follower’) and Ḫudi-yar (’God’s friend/follower’), the “relatives” of Madi(y)-yar (’Muhammad’s friend/follower’)".
Like the Magyars, the Madjars have been linked genetically to peoples of the Caucasus, modern Iranians and the neighbouring Argyn people: 86.7% of 45 samples of Y-DNA belonged to Haplogroup G. The biggest problem with Bíro's focus on Haplogroup G, that it is considered very rare in Hungary (around 3%). However it has much higher ratio in Southern Europe like Italy, and in Western Europe like France, but even Southern German populations have higher ratio of Haplogroup G than the Hungarian poplation.