Turkey, which has ancestral ties to the area, has offered to accept and train 90 athletes.

Many Bedoons have ancestral ties to areas that are now in Iraq, but they do not claim to be Iraqis.

Similarly, indigenous people often have religious or ancestral ties to specific tracts of land.

These people still have spiritual and ancestral ties to many parts of the region.

Ethnic groups are often linked by linguistic, cultural, ancestral, and national or regional ties.

They have strong ancestral ties with mainly the United States, Caribbean, and Canada.

But several hundred Navajo refused to leave, claiming ancestral and religious ties to the land.

Some dinosaurs with putative ancestral ties to birds appear to have evolved feathers, too, and they were unrelated to flight.

By destroying this heritage, a nation severs its ancestral ties and tears up its roots.

Unlike those of European settlers, blacks' ancestral ties to their homelands were cut.