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