Descendants of Turkic tribes who migrated from Mongolia in the 10th century, the Turkmen are a conservative people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkmen Dictator Is Gone, but He's Still in the Process of Being Forgotten] Reference

Turkmen manats per US dollar - 5,200 (2003), 5,200.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Turkmenistan: noun: Turkmen (s) adjective: Turkmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Turkmen manats per US dollar - 10,100 (2004), 10,034.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2005 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Turkmen manats per US dollar - 5,200 (January 2001).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In Kirkuk, the struggle is between Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iraq Study Group Report] Reference

This will aid in the transit of Turkmen natural gas to Ukraine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of Ukraine] Reference

Exchange rates: Turkmen manats per US dollar - 5,200 (January 2001).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Kirkuk's mix of Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen populations could make it a powder keg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iraq Study Group Report] Reference

Tensions between Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds and Turkmen are still making investors nervous.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2008] Reference

We'd like to see an Iraq where the interests of the Kurds, the Arabs and the Turkmen are respected.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Will Incur Another Loss'] Reference

The rights of women and the rights of all minority communities in Iraq, including Turkmen, Chaldeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iraq Study Group Report] Reference

So the robbers had had to be satisfied with as many of the legendary Turkmen melons as they could carry.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE TALE OF THE TURKMENI STALLION] Reference

According to Turkmen officials, refinery throughput dropped because of work to the Turkmenbashi refinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of Central Asia] Reference

There is still a possibility that Turkmen natural gas might reach Turkey through the South Caucasus Pipeline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of Turkey] Reference

Uzbek and Turkmen elites prefer authoritarian capitalism as in Chile and South Korea under the previous regimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Game, Chapter Two] Reference

But there's a multiplicity of other groups there that are smaller, the Turkmen, the Syrian, Chaldeans and other groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2005] Reference

The select few companies that remained have been successful in developing the Turkmen portion of the Caspian shoreline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of Central Asia] Reference

In the short term, Russia will fight hard to preserve its near-monopoly on Turkmen gas exports and the attendant profits.    From Wordnik.com.  [No More Mr. Nice Guy] Reference

Languages: Pashtu 35\%, Afghan Persian (Dari) 50\%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11\%, 30 minor languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Pashtu (official) 35\%, Afghan Persian (Dari) 50\%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11\%, 30 minor languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11\%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4\%, much bilingualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

"Welcome to the land of heartbreak and tractors," says a Turkmen musician standing in the midst of his sparse, flat landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Blues] Reference

Both all the Kurds, Arabs, and the Turkmen in that city, they all claim historical rights to the city, which is north of Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2005] Reference

They include the Tajiks, the Baluch, Imach (ph), and Hazara ethnic groups, as well as the Turkmen and Uzbeks, each with its own agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2001] Reference

Former President Saparmurat Niyazov (also referred to as Turkmenbashi) hopes to boost Turkmen oil extraction to 2 million bbl/d by 2020.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of Central Asia] Reference