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  • noun Plural form of Turkoman.

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Examples

  • In these raids the Turkomans were the most active.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • Yet, even as it is, the modern Osmanli display enough of those unlovely Turanian traits which characterize the unmodified Turks of central Asia, often called "Turkomans," to distinguish them from their Ottoman kinsfolk to the west.

    The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

  • Eleven seats are set aside for minorities such as Turkomans and Christians.

    The Guardian World News Michael Howard 2009

  • Iraq is a patchwork country, an ethnic and confessional cocktail, of Arabs and Kurds, Turkomans and Chaldaeans, Sunnis and Shiites.

    Archive 2009-07-08 2009

  • Iraq is a patchwork country, an ethnic and confessional cocktail, of Arabs and Kurds, Turkomans and Chaldaeans, Sunnis and Shiites.

    "we don't often talk directly about demographics...in the UK" 2009

  • Kurds boycotted the vote on the election bill because it guaranteed an equal number of provincial council seats to Arabs, Turkomans and Kurds.

    Kirkuk Turmoil Over Council Move IWPR 2008

  • Kurds and Turkomans both lay claim to Kirkuk and battle for political control of the oil-rich city, which is also inhabited by other Iraqi minority groups and Arabs.

    Kirkuk Turmoil Over Council Move IWPR 2008

  • Arabs and Turkomans have escalated the situation and showed their disdain for the Kurds by demonstrating against the council move.

    Kirkuk Must Remain United IWPR 2008

  • Keeping a country of Persians, Kurds, Turkomans, Azerbaijanis, Pashtuns and Arabs together in spite of the centripetal forces of ethnic and tribal loyalties.

    Larry Beinhart: Why Should We Bomb These People? 2008

  • A sectarian war is looming in the north of the country between Kurds, Turkomans and Arabs (both Sunni & Shiites) over the oil rich area of Kirkuk.

    Jamal Dajani: RNC: "USA, USA" 2008

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