The Ukrainian surnames ending with -uk are highly likely to contain the Georgian diminuitive -uk(i) suffix (-უკი). There is no arguments against this claim. The widespread -chuk variant of the same ending implies a k-ending root and the k-ch alternation typical ("бик" - "бичок") for the Ukrainian language: Іванко (Ivanko) - Іванчук (Ivanchuk).
So, it's not a Turk suffix, as you may read on Russian lingvistic resources.
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