Turkmen or Turkoman or Turkman may refer to:
* Turkmenistan, in
Central Asia (referring to something of, from, or related to that country)
* Turkmen language,
the national language of Turkmenistan
* Formerly the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, when a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.
* Ethnic Turkmens fall into two distinct groups; confusingly, both of these are sometimes called both "Turkmen" and "Turcoman/
men". Both are part of the wider grouping of Oghuz Turks. Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples,
historically Muslim nomadic Oghuz Turks (in the 10th–18th centuries)
* Eastern or Central Asian/Iranian group:
--Turkmens, a Turkic people located primarily in Central Asia, in Turkmenistan, Iran,
Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan, and in the North Caucasus
-- Iranian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Iran
* Western group
-- Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq
-- Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria
-- Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey
-- Karapapaks or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus
