Turkmen

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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
- 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

Places

Azerbaijan

Turkey

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