# Turkmen

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

## Peoples
### Historical ethnonym

* Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages

### Ethnic groups

* Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish descendants):
** Until the 17th and 18th centuries, Azerbaijani Turks were also called this way
** Iraqi Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in the Turkmeneli region in northern Iraq
** Israeli Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Israel
** Lebanese Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon
** Palestinian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in the region of 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
** 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

* 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

* 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
* 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

## 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), a 1974 Iranian film