Turkman
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Turkmen
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Origin of Turkman
First recorded in 1475–85; alteration of Turkoman
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His real name was Amir Mohammed Saeed Abdul-Rahman al-Mawla, an Iraqi in his mid-40s, born in 1976 and believed to be an ethnic Turkman from the northern Iraqi town of Tel Afar.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
“They are like migratory birds who make permanent, if makeshift, nests in a faraway land,” one post, about a group of forty Kashmiri men whom Soofi saw living in Old Delhi’s Turkman Gate Bazaar, begins.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 11, 2019
Now Iraqis have a choice of 200 print outlets, 60 radio stations and 30 TV channels in Arabic and also in the Turkman, Syriac and Kurdish languages.
From Reuters ● Apr. 2, 2013
It you go talk to any Shi’a, Turkman, Sunni, they have exactly the same concern about the Prime Minister.
From Time ● Dec. 21, 2012
In this respect I soon found that I had been led to form a very erroneous opinion of the Turkman character.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
An official at the State Organisation for Turkmen Horses told AFP the breed was "on the brink of extinction", hailing the "interest" that has been shown from the country's leaders.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Turkish and Turkmen raiders had swept down out of the mountains a couple of years before.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
He is currently speaker of the Turkmen parliament.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023
The suspension of flights between the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat and Moscow would be in place until Oct.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
Languages: Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7%
From The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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