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

Peoples

Historical ethnonym

Turkoman (ethnonym) Turkoman (Middle Turkic languages, Middle Turkic: تُركْمانْ, ota, تركمن, Türkmen and ''Türkmân''; az, Türkman and ', tr, Türkmen, tk, Türkmen, Persian language, Persian: ترکمن sing. ''Turkamān'', pl. ''Tarākimah''), ...

, ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages

Ethnic groups

* Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish descendants): **

Iraqi Turkmen The Iraqi Turkmens (also spelled as Turkoman and Turcoman; tr, Irak Türkmenleri), also referred to as Iraqi Turks, Turkish-Iraqis, the Turkish minority in Iraq, and the Iraqi-Turkish minority ( ar, تركمان العراق; tr, Irak Türkleri ...

, a Turkish minority living mostly in the Turkmeneli region in northern Iraq ** Turks in Israel, a Turkish minority living in Israel ** Turks in Lebanon, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon ** 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

* 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#Language, Iraqi Turkmen/Turkman dialects, a Turkish dialect in Iraq *Syrian Turkmen#Language, 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

Surname

* Behçet Türkmen (1899–1968), Turkish military officer * Doğan Türkmen (fl. 1980), Turkish diplomat attacked by the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide * 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 (1927–2022), 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

* 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), ''Torkaman'' (film), a 1974 Iranian film