Turkmenistan: Two Turkmen soldiers outside a yurt standing on a Turkoman carpet. Photo by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (18 August 1863 - 27 September 1944), c. 1908 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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