Turkmen

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

Peoples

Ethnic groups

• Avshar Turkmen, one of the Oghuz Turkic peoples
• 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
  • Turks in Israel, a Turkish minority living in Israel
  • Lebanese Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon
  • Palestinian Turkmen (see Hebrew article), a Turkish minority living in 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
  • Turkmen 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 Turkmen, Turkmen minority living in Iran
  • Turkmen in Pakistan, mostly Turkmen refugees from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan living in Pakistan
  • Turkmen tribes, the major tribes found in the Turkmenistan region
  • Yomut Turkmen, a Turkmen tribe that lives in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

Other uses for people

• Karapapaks 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

Iraq

• Turkmeneli

Syria

• Turkmen Mountain

Turkey

• Türkmen, Emirdağ
• Türkmen, Gölpazarı
• Türkmen, Vezirköprü
• Türkmenakören, Emirdağ

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

• Türkmenköy

Surname

• Doğan Türkmen (fl. 1980), Turkish diplomat
• Ekin Türkmen (born 1984), Turkish actress
• Elif Doğan Türkmen (born 1962), Turkish politician
• Emre Turkmen, a member of the London-based music band Years & Years
• Hüseyin Türkmen, (born 1998) Turkish football player
• İlter Türkmen (born 1927), Turkish diplomat
• Muhammed Türkmen (born 1986), Turkish football player
• Özer Türkmen (born c. 1939), head of the army of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Tayfun Türkmen (born 1978), Turkish football player

Culture

• Turkmen music, music of Turkmenistan
• Turkmen rug, a type of handmade floor-covering originating in Central Asia

Media

• Türkmen Owazy, a music TV channel in Turkmenistan
• Turkmeneli TV, a bilingual (Arabic and Turkish) TV channel based in Iraq and Turkey

Other uses

Animals

• Hybrid camel, sometimes called a Turkoman
• Turkmen Alabai, or Central Asian Shepherd Dog
• Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
• Turkmen kulan (Equus hemionus kulan), a type of wild ass
• Turkoman (horse) (born 1982), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

Companies

• Turkmen Telecom, a national telecommunications company in Turkmenistan

Films

• Torkaman (film), a 1974 Iranian film

See also

• List of Turkic dynasties and countries
• Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
• Turkmen manat, the currency of Turkmenistan
• Turkoman people (disambiguation)