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
  • 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)