Turkmen

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

Peoples

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
    • Lebanese Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon
    • Palestinian Turkmen (see Hebrew article), a Turkish minority living in Palestine
    • Syrian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in northern Syria
    • Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey
    • Turkmen 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 tribes found in the Turkmenistan region
    • Yomut Turkmen, a Turkmen tribe that lives in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

Other uses for people

  • Karapapaks 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

Azerbaijan

Iran

Iraq

Syria

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Northern Cyprus

Surname

Culture

  • Turkmen music, music of Turkmenistan
  • Turkmen rug, a type of handmade floor-covering originating in Central Asia

Media

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

Other uses

Animals

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

Companies

  • Turkmen Telecom, a national telecommunications company in Turkmenistan

Films

See also

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