The Turkmen (Turkmen: T羹rkmen/苠玼?郕邾迮郇, plural T羹rkmenler/苠玼?郕邾迮郇郅迮?) are a Turkic people located primarily in the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, Syria, Iraq and North Caucasus.

They speak the Turkmen language, which is classified as a part of the Western Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages family together with Turkish, Azerbaijani, Qashqai, Gagauz and Salar.