Kankalis, Qanqlis, Kangars or Kangly (Kanglı) are a Turkic people of Eurasia.

They are three ruling clans of Pechenegs.

They first appear on history as minor branch of ancient Oghuz Turks.

They form one of the five sections winto hich Oghuz khan divides his subjects.

After the fall of Pecheneg Khanate in early 10th century, the role of Kankali Turks becomes prominent.

They are closely related to Kypchaks.They may have been a separate nomadic people earlier but the Turkic peoples in the Pontic-Steppe become assimilated to each other by the 13th century.Many Kankali warriors join the Khwarezmid Empire in the 11th century.

They suffer heavy losses from Genghis Khan in 1219-1223.

For example, Kankalis in Bukhara who sre higher than a wagon wheel are all slain.

Jochi subdues their relations who still live along the land of Kyrghyz and Kipchak steppes in 1225.

Khwarizmi Kankali remnants submit to Great Khan Ögedei after the long resistance under Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu against his general Chormaqan and governor Chin-temur.

After the Mongol conquest, the remaining Kankalis ware absorbed into other Turks and Mongols.

Some of them who serve in the Yuan Dynasty become Kharchins.There are Kankali clans among the Kazakhs, the Uzbegs, the Nogais and the Karakalpaks.