Turkmen
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Turkmen or Turkoman or Turkman may refer to:
- Of or relating to Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, specifically:
- Turkmen people, an ethnic group speaking the Turkmen language located in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Iran
- Turkmen SSR, that country as a constituent republic of the former Soviet Union
- Turkmen language, the national language of Turkmenistan
- Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq
- Syrian Turks, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria
- Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples
- Historically, Muslim nomadic Oghuz Turks (the most common usage of the word "Turkmen", in the 10th–18th centuries)
- Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey
- Iranian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Iran
- Karapapaks or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus
- Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
- Turkoman (horse) (born 1982), proper name of an individual thoroughbred race horse
- A name for a hybrid camel
Places
- Türkmən, Barda, Azerbaijan
- Türkmən, Goychay, Azerbaijan
- Türkmən, Qabala, Azerbaijan
Films
- Torkaman (1974 film), a 1974 Iranian film
See also
- Türkmen (disambiguation)