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Turkmen , Türkmen , Turkoman , or Turkman may refer to:
Peoples
Historical ethnonym
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
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
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
Western Oghuz
Places
Afghanistan
Azerbaijan
Iran
Iraq
Northern Cyprus
Kontea , known in Turkish as Türkmenköy
Syria
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Culture
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
Animals
Films
See also
Topics referred to by the same term