# Turkmen

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**Turkmen**, **Türkmen**, **Turkoman**, or **Turkman** may refer to:

## Peoples

### Historical ethnonym

- [Turkoman (ethnonym)](/source/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](/source/Iraqi_Turkmen), a Turkish minority living mostly in the Turkmeneli region in northern Iraq - [Israeli Turkmen](/source/Israeli_Turkmen), a Turkish minority living in Israel - [Lebanese Turkmen](/source/Lebanese_Turkmen), a Turkish minority living in Lebanon - [Palestinian Turkmen](/source/Palestinian_Turkmen), a Turkish minority living in the region of Palestine - [Syrian Turkmen](/source/Syrian_Turkmen), a Turkish minority living mostly in northern Syria - [Yörüks](/source/Y%C3%B6r%C3%BCks), a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey - [Anatolian beyliks](/source/Anatolian_beyliks), small principalities in Anatolia governed by Beys, late 11th–13th centuries
- [Turkmens](/source/Turkmens), a Turkic people native to Central Asia living primarily in Turkmenistan and North Caucasus - [Iranian Turkmens](/source/Iranian_Turkmens), Turkmen minority living in Iran - [Afghan Turkmens](/source/Afghan_Turkmens), Turkmen minority living in Afghanistan - [Turkmen in Pakistan](/source/Turkmen_in_Pakistan), mostly Turkmen refugees from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan living in Pakistan - [Turkmen tribes](/source/Turkmen_tribes), the major modern Turkmen tribes that live in Turkmenistan, Iran and Afghanistan

### Other uses for people

- [Türkmen (surname)](/source/T%C3%BCrkmen_(surname)), list of people with the surname
- [Qarapapaqs](/source/Qarapapaqs) or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus
- [Oghuz Turks](/source/Oghuz_Turks), a large branch of Turkic peoples, historically Muslim nomadic Oghuz Turks (in the 10th–18th centuries)

## Languages

### Eastern Oghuz

- [Turkmen language](/source/Turkmen_language), the official language of Turkmenistan - [Turkmen alphabet](/source/Turkmen_alphabet), used for official purposes in Turkmenistan

### Western Oghuz

- [Iraqi Turkmen/Turkman dialects](/source/Iraqi_Turkmen#Language), a Turkish dialect in Iraq
- [Syrian Turkmen/Turkman dialects](/source/Syrian_Turkmen#Language), a Turkish dialect in Syria

## Places

### Afghanistan

- [Turkman Valley](/source/Turkman_Valley)

### Azerbaijan

- [Türkmən, Barda](/source/T%C3%BCrkm%C9%99n,_Barda)
- [Türkmən, Goychay](/source/T%C3%BCrkm%C9%99n,_Goychay)
- [Türkmən, Qabala](/source/T%C3%BCrkm%C9%99n,_Qabala)

### Iran

- [Turkmen Sahra](/source/Turkmen_Sahra)
- [Torkamanchay](/source/Torkamanchay)
- [Torkaman County](/source/Torkaman_County)
- [Central District (Torkaman County)](/source/Central_District_(Torkaman_County))
- [Bandar Torkaman](/source/Bandar_Torkaman)
- [Torkaman, West Azerbaijan](/source/Torkaman,_West_Azerbaijan)
- [Tappeh Torkaman](/source/Tappeh_Torkaman)
- [Qarah Tappeh, Torkaman](/source/Qarah_Tappeh,_Torkaman)

### Iraq

- [Turkmeneli](/source/Turkmeneli)

### Northern Cyprus

- [Kontea](/source/Kontea), known in Turkish as Türkmenköy

### Syria

- [Turkmen Mountain](/source/Turkmen_Mountain)

### Turkey

- [Türkmen, Çüngüş](/source/T%C3%BCrkmen,_%C3%87%C3%BCng%C3%BC%C5%9F)
- [Türkmen, Emirdağ](/source/T%C3%BCrkmen,_Emirda%C4%9F)
- [Türkmen, Gölpazarı](/source/T%C3%BCrkmen,_G%C3%B6lpazar%C4%B1)
- [Türkmen, Keşan](/source/T%C3%BCrkmen,_Ke%C5%9Fan)
- [Türkmen, Vezirköprü](/source/T%C3%BCrkmen,_Vezirk%C3%B6pr%C3%BC)
- [Türkmenakören, Emirdağ](/source/T%C3%BCrkmenak%C3%B6ren,_Emirda%C4%9F)

### Turkmenistan

- [Türkmenabat](/source/T%C3%BCrkmenabat)
- [Türkmenbaşy, Turkmenistan](/source/T%C3%BCrkmenba%C5%9Fy,_Turkmenistan)

## Culture

- [Music of Turkmenistan](/source/Music_of_Turkmenistan)
- [Turkmen rug](/source/Turkmen_rug), a type of handmade floor-covering originating in Central Asia

### Media

- [Türkmen Owazy](/source/T%C3%BCrkmen_Owazy), a music TV channel in Turkmenistan
- [Türkmeneli TV](/source/T%C3%BCrkmeneli_TV), a bilingual (Arabic and Turkish) TV channel based in Iraq and Turkey

## Other uses

- Someone or something related to [Turkmenistan](/source/Turkmenistan)

### Animals

- [Hybrid camel](/source/Hybrid_camel), sometimes called a Turkoman
- [Central Asian Shepherd Dog](/source/Central_Asian_Shepherd_Dog), known as the Turkmen Alabai
- [Turkoman horse](/source/Turkoman_horse), or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
- [Turkmenian kulan](/source/Turkmenian_kulan), *Equus hemionus kulan*, a type of wild ass
- [Turkoman (horse)](/source/Turkoman_(horse)) (born 1982), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

### Films

- [*Torkaman* (film)](/source/Torkaman_(film)), a 1974 Iranian film

## See also

- [Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic](/source/Turkestan_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic)
- [Turkmen manat](/source/Turkmenistani_manat), the currency of Turkmenistan
- [Turkoman people (disambiguation)](/source/Turkoman_people_(disambiguation))

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