Turkmens. The Turkmens or Turkomans (Turkmen: Türkmen/Түркмен, plural Türkmenler/Түркменлер) are a Turkic people located primarily in Central Asia, in the state of Turkmenistan, as well as in Iran, Afghanistan, North Caucasus (Stavropol Krai), and northern Pakistan.
They speak the Turkmen language, which is classified as a part of the Eastern Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages. Examples of other Oghuz languages are Turkish, Azerbaijani, Qashqai, Gagauz, Khorasani, and Salar.[9] Central Asian Turkmens are not to be confused with the Turkmens (or the Turcomans) of the Near East, found primarily in Iraq (see Iraqi Turkmens), Syria (see Syrian Turkmens) and Turkey (see Yörüks), with whom they only share their ethnonym due to the fact that "Turkmen" was once a generic ethnonym for Oghuz Turkic tribes which had embraced Islam.[10]
Yörüks. The Yörüks, also Yuruks or Yorouks (Turkish: Yörük; Greek: Γιουρούκοι, Giouroúkoi; Bulgarian: юруци; Macedonian: Јуруци yuritsi), are a Turkish ethnic group,[1] some of whom are nomadic, primarily inhabiting the mountains of Anatolia and partly Balkan peninsula.
Their name derives from the Turkish verb yürü- (yürümek in infinitive), which means "to walk", with the word yörük or yürük designating "those who walk, walkers".[2][3] Yörüks lived within the Yörük Sanjak (Turkish: Yörük Sancağı) which was not a territorial unit like other sanjaks but a separate organisational unit of the Ottoman Empire.[4][5] Yörüks in Anatolia[edit] Historians and ethnologists often use the additional appellative 'Yörük Turcoman' or 'Turkmens' to describe the Yörüks of Anatolia. The Yörüks are divided in a large number of named endogamous patrilineal tribes (aşiret). Yörüks in the Balkans[edit]
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