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.

Peoples

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

Azerbaijan

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

Other uses

• Torkaman (film), a 1974 Iranian film
• Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
• Turkoman (horse) (born 1982), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Hybrid camel, sometimes called a Turkoman

See also

• Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
• List of Turkic dynasties and countries
• Türkmen (disambiguation)