Turkmen
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Turkmen or Turkoman may refer to:
- Of or relating to Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, specifically:
- Turkmen SSR, that country as a constituent republic of the former Soviet Union
- Turkmen language, the national language of Turkmenistan
- Turkmen people, an ethnic group speaking the Turkmen language located in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Iran
- Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq
- Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria
- Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples
- In Turkey and the former Ottoman Empire, 'Turkmen' often refers to those now called Yörük
- Karapapaks or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus
- Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, an extinct breed of horse from Turkmenistan
- Turkoman (horse), the proper name of a thoroughbred race horse
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