Turkmen
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
* 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
Turkmen, are people from Turkmenistan...
Iraqi Turkmen are being discriminated against by the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous government.. Sad!
Iraqi Turkmen are being discriminated against by the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous government.. Sad!
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