Turkmen

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

Peoples

Historical ethnonym

• Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks, and partially Karluk 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
  • Israeli Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Israel
  • Lebanese Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon
  • Palestinian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in the region of 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
  • Abdal people (West Asia), 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 Turkmens, Turkmen minority living in Iran
  • Afghan Turkmens, Turkmen minority living in Afghanistan
  • 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

• Türkmen (surname), list of people with the surname
• 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

• Turkmen language, the official language of Turkmenistan
  • Turkmen alphabet, used for official purposes in Turkmenistan

Western Oghuz

• Iraqi Turkmen/Turkman dialects, a Turkish dialect in Iraq
• Syrian Turkmen/Turkman dialects, a Turkish dialect in Syria

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

Northern Cyprus

• Kontea, known in Turkish as Türkmenköy

Syria

• Turkmen Mountain

Turkey

• Türkmen, Çüngüş
• Türkmen, Emirdağ
• Türkmen, Gölpazarı
• Türkmen, Keşan
• Türkmen, Vezirköprü
• Türkmenakören, Emirdağ

Turkmenistan

• Türkmenabat
• Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan

Culture

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

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

• Someone or something related to Turkmenistan

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

Films

• Torkaman (film), a 1974 Iranian film

See also

• Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
• Turkmen manat, the currency of Turkmenistan
• Turkoman people (disambiguation)