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• n  a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
• n  a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas
• n  the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman

• Turkmenistan
• Turkomen
• Turkmen
• Turkmenia
• Turkoman
• Turcoman

Quotes

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• Nouri al-Maliki in CBS News
  Iraq, at this stage, needs all its sons. There is no difference among Kurds, Arabs and Turkomen, Muslims or Christians, Sunnis or Shiites,al-Maliki said. "That doesn't mean that we don't have different opinions, but we have to rely on...
• Massoud Barzani in BBC News
  Mr Barzani said: "The new government of Kurdistan is not only for the Kurds, but for the other sects and ethnic groups such as the Christians and Turkomen."
• John Batiste in San Diego Union Tribune
  It doesn't have to be a train wreck,Batiste said. "There are certainly some Kurds and Turkomen and Arabs who are very hardline on this. But I think there's a way of doing it."