Turkoman
noun
a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
Turkomans
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pluralof Turkoman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Instead of fleeing in the face of the Islamic State drive across northern Iraq, the Turkomans have stayed and fortified their town of 15,000 with trenches and armed positions.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 2014
In the 1970s, Saddam Hussein sought to reorder the city's demographics by driving out some Kurds and Turkomans and busing up thousands of Arab families from the south.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also at stake is the larger, constitutional question of whether Iraq should have a powerful central government, favored by Turkomans and Arabs, or highly autonomous regions, as the Kurds wish.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tension persists between the Kurds on one side and Arabs and Turkomans on the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Innumerable raids of this kind have scourged eastern Persia, and in the same way Turkomans have devastated Khorasan in the north-east.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
