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Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to:

Peoples

Historical ethnonym

  • Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages

Ethnic groups

  • Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish descendants):
    • Iraqi Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in the Turkmeneli region in northern Iraq
    • Turks in Israel, a Turkish minority living in Israel
    • Turks in Lebanon, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon
    • Syrian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in northern Syria
    • Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey
    • Anatolian beyliks, small principalities in Anatolia governed by Beys, late 11th–13th centuries
  • Turkmens, a Turkic people native to Central Asia living primarily in Turkmenistan and North Caucasus
    • Iranian Turkmen, Turkmen minority living in Iran
    • Turkmen in Pakistan, mostly Turkmen refugees from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan living in Pakistan
    • Turkmen tribes, the major modern Turkmen tribes that live in Turkmenistan, Iran and Afghanistan

Other uses for people

  • Qarapapaqs or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus
  • Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples, historically Muslim nomadic Oghuz Turks (in the 10th–18th centuries)

Languages

Eastern Oghuz

Western Oghuz

Places

Afghanistan

  • Turkman Valley

Azerbaijan

  • Türkmən, Barda
  • Türkmən, Goychay
  • Türkmən, Qabala

Iran

  • Turkmen Sahra
  • Torkamanchay
  • Torkaman County
  • Central District (Torkaman County)
  • Bandar Torkaman
  • Torkaman, West Azerbaijan
  • Tappeh Torkaman
  • Qarah Tappeh, Torkaman

Iraq

  • Turkmeneli

Syria

  • Turkmen Mountain

Turkey

  • Türkmen, Emirdağ
  • Türkmen, Gölpazarı
  • Türkmen, Vezirköprü
  • Türkmenakören, Emirdağ

Turkmenistan

Northern Cyprus

  • Kontea, known in Turkish as Türkmenköy

Surname

  • Doğan Türkmen (fl. 1980), Turkish diplomat attacked by the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
  • Ekin Türkmen (born 1984), Turkish actress
  • Elif Doğan Türkmen (born 1962), Turkish politician
  • Emre Turkmen, a member of the London-based music band Years & Years
  • Hüseyin Türkmen, (born 1998) Turkish football player
  • İlter Türkmen (born 1927), Turkish diplomat
  • Muhammed Türkmen (born 1986), Turkish football player
  • Özer Türkmen (born c. 1939), head of the army of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
  • Tayfun Türkmen (born 1978), Turkish football player

Culture

Media

  • Türkmen Owazy, a music TV channel in Turkmenistan
  • Türkmeneli TV, a bilingual (Arabic and Turkish) TV channel based in Iraq and Turkey

Other uses

Animals

  • Hybrid camel, sometimes called a Turkoman
  • Central Asian Shepherd Dog, known as the Turkmen Alabai
  • Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
  • Turkmenian kulan, Equus hemionus kulan, a type of wild ass
  • Turkoman (horse) (born 1982), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

Companies

  • Turkmentelecom, a national telecommunications company in Turkmenistan

Films

  • Torkaman (film), a 1974 Iranian film

See also

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