Iran/Persia: A Turkoman prisoner, his left arm in a yoke. Miniature painting by Shaykh Muhammad, c. 1555-1590. The Turkmen are a Turkic people located primarily in the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, Syria, Iraq and North Caucasus. They speak the Turkmen language, which is classified as a part of the Western Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages family together with Turkish, Azerbaijani, Qashqai, Gagauz and Salar.

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