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
The Ryhanlu, like most of the larger Turkman nations, are a nomade people.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
The Turkmen authorities discourage residents from speaking without permission to foreign media, with outside journalists rarely allowed into the reclusive country.
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
But Arab residents and minority groups who said they suffered under Kurdish rule, such as the Turkmen, have protested the KDP's return.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2023
Kirkuk's mix of Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen populations could make it a powder keg.
From The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)
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