Turkmen

Turkmen or Turkoman or Turkman may refer to:* Turkmenistan, in Central Asia (referring to something of, from, or related to that country)* Turkmen language, the national language of Turkmenistan* Formerly the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, when a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.* Ethnic Turkmens fall into two distinct groups; confusingly, both of these are sometimes called both "Turkmen" and "Turcoman/men". Both are part of the wider grouping of Oghuz Turks. Oghuz Turks, a large branch of Turkic peoples, historically Muslim nomadic Oghuz Turks (in the 10th–18th centuries)* Eastern or Central Asian/Iranian group:--Turkmens, a Turkic people located primarily in Central Asia, in Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan, and in the North Caucasus-- Iranian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Iran* Western group-- Iraqi Turkmen, an ethnic minority living in northern Iraq-- Syrian Turkmen, an ethnic minority of Oghuz Turkish descent living in Syria-- Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey-- Karapapaks or Terekeme, an ethnic minority living in Turkey, Iran and the South Caucasus