Turkman

[turk-muhn]

noun

plural

Turkmen 

1. a native or inhabitant of Turkmenistan.

Other Word Forms

• Turkmenian adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Turkman¹

First recorded in 1475–85; alteration of Turkoman

Example Sentences

One of the worst episodes of slum demolitions occurred in Delhi's Turkman Gate, a Muslim-majority neighbourhood, where police fired on protesters resisting demolition, killing at least six and displacing thousands.

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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.

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State TV quoted the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi as saying on Saturday: “The retaliation sentence against Navid Afkari, the killer of Hassan Turkman, was carried out this morning in Adelabad prison in Shiraz.”

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“I hit twice, once and then again,” Afkari was shown saying with a stabbing gesture during a police reconstruction of the killing of the middle-aged victim, Hassan Turkman, a water company security guard.

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Born into an Iraqi Turkman family in the once ISIS-controlled town of Tel Afar, he is one of the few non-Arabs to have ascended into a high-profile position -- driven not only by his lineage but by his background as an Islamic scholar, having earned a degree in sharia law from the University of Mosul.

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