The Turkoman is a large, powerful, enduring animal, with long legs, a light body, and a big head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

Most of the city residents are Sunnis of Turkoman origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2006] Reference

A sizable Turkoman minority says Kirkuk has always been theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

The Burids were the last of the petty Turkoman rulers in Syria.    From Wordnik.com.  [1064] Reference

The Turkoman, who are ethnic Turks and live in northern Iraq, they claim Kirkuk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003] Reference

There's a Turkoman population that isn't particularly fond of the regime in Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003] Reference

The Turkoman of Iraq Front, the council of the tribes, Unified Tribes of Mosul, 6,624 votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2005] Reference

Turkoman guards fired as Kurdish demonstrators rushed toward their offices near the protest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirkuk Turmoil Over Council Move] Reference

We've seen the Turkoman demonstrating saying that they are not getting a full representation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2005] Reference

Turkey threatend to invade north Iraq before this happens.also to protect the Turkoman minority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 23, 2007] Reference

QUESTION: There is the issue of Kirkuk and the problems of the protests of the Turkoman in Kirkuk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2005] Reference

Welch also met with Iraqi Assyrian and Turkoman political leaders, PMF personnel, and U.N. officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Letter On Activities Re Iraq] Reference

The next paragraph begins: "Khashoggi is a Turkoman, another non-Saudi son of one of Ibn Saud's doctors...".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: KHASHOGGI.] Reference

There he built a devoted following among the Turkoman tribesmen, who saw him as something of a divine figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [1381] Reference

The area remained for many years the source of periodic Turkoman revolts around pretenders to the throne of Karaman.    From Wordnik.com.  [1461] Reference

Disagreement initially focused on the ethnically mixed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk, claimed by Kurds, Arabs and Turkoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turmoil Reveals Iraqi Reliance on US] Reference

Having become the leader of a number of tribes, he overthrew the power of the Turkoman and made Azerbijon their Capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Persia] Reference

The principality of Karaman in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains was founded by the Turkoman leader Karaman ibn Musa.    From Wordnik.com.  [c. The Mongol Empire and Its Successors] Reference

It was one of the leading Turkoman principalities on the Byzantine frontier, and was annexed by the Ottomans in 1389–90.    From Wordnik.com.  [c. The Mongol Empire and Its Successors] Reference

According to the CIA factbook, Iraq is 75-80% Arab, 15-20% Kurdish, with the remainder being Assyrian, Turkoman and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Liberals Are About to Go Apoplectic] Reference

Saruhan Bey conquered Manisa (Magnesia), which formed the base of the Turkoman principality of Saruhan in western Anatolia.    From Wordnik.com.  [c. 1297] Reference

When he came to power for himself he conceived the idea of restoring Bloogistan, Afghanistan, and a great part of Turkoman to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Persia] Reference

Many of the subgroups, such as the Kurds, the Turkoman and the Baluchi are semi-autonomous and this seems to work out quite well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anita Mason: Iranians Fear A McCain Presidency Would Bring War] Reference

Chagri Beg and his brother Tughril Beg, chieftains of the Seljuk family, invaded Khurasan at the head of armies of Turkoman nomads.    From Wordnik.com.  [1008] Reference

The Ottomans absorbed the neighboring Turkoman principality of Karasi, which brought them to the southern shores of the Dardanelles.    From Wordnik.com.  [d. The Ottoman Empire] Reference

But in Iraq, the oil is largely in the Shiite, Kurdish and Turkoman areas, which could trigger ethnic conflict (as happened in Nigeria).    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Wage War] Reference

Ottoman conquest of the Turkoman principalities of Saruhan, Aydin, Menteshe, Hamideli, and Germiyan, and the eastern territories of Karaman.    From Wordnik.com.  [1362-89] Reference

This son of Tahmasp was brought to power by a Qizilbash faction interested in a prince whose mother was Turkoman rather than Circassian or Georgian.    From Wordnik.com.  [1524-37] Reference

It might be better to have a Pushtun state and a Hazzara state and a Turkoman state rather than to try to encourage a stable national government in Kabul.    From Wordnik.com.  [I hate the military!] Reference

The Qara-Qoyunlu Turkoman confederation steadily established itself as the dominant power in Azerbaijan, western Iran, Iraq, and parts of eastern Anatolia.    From Wordnik.com.  [1381] Reference

In the 1824 English novel Haddi Baba (which I had bought at the hotel in a pirated offset of the Oxford World's Classics edition), there were Turkoman bandits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Believers] Reference

"The best solution is to make Kirkuk an independent federal region, this is what the Turkoman are calling for.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ Peace Reporting] Reference

But the Arab and Turkoman populations strongly oppose this, making it impossible to finalize arrangements for the election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference

Hasan Turhan, a Turkoman member of Kirkuk's provincial council, has little hope that the upcoming national poll will benefit Kirkuk.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Peace Reporting] Reference