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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
Peoples
- Turkmens, a Turkic people located primarily in Central Asia, in Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan, and in the North Caucasus
- Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq
- Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria
- Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples, historically Muslim nomadic Oghuz Turks (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
Places
- Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, a former constituent republic of the Soviet Union located in Central Asia
Azerbaijan
Other uses
- Torkaman (1974 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)
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