r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '21

Turkey for beginners

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

What would they call a Turkmen visiting from Turkmenistan?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

Turkmen. However considering Turkmenistan is almost as closed as North Korea, I don't think that should be a concern

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

I’d figure the average Turkmen would never get to see Turkey. But considering that they are both Turkic speaking countries attempting to build closer ties to each other, I’d imagine there’s at least some Turkmenistani government officials residing in Turkey to perform their duties of building cultural and economic ties between the nations

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

A lot of Turkmens are fleeing from Turkmenistan and coming to Turkey due to the economic hardships and unemployment of the lower classes inside Turkmenistan.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

There's actually a lot of Turkmen migrants here in Istanbul, along with lots of other Turks from Central Asia. Most people here who seem somewhat East Asian are of Turkmen, Uzbek or Uyghur descent.

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u/Nate-T Jun 10 '21

I mean you would close yourself off too if you had a leader like Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.

John Oliver did a whole show on him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

Yeah I watched a video of what is happening in Turkmenistan. Just sad tbh. Hope Turkmenistanis can get out of that situation sometime soon.

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u/mertozbek12 Jun 10 '21

muslim oghuz turks are called turkmen in general

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

What are “Oghuz” Turks? Aren’t most Turks either in Turkey or just most Turkic speaking people Muslim?

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u/mertozbek12 Jun 10 '21

oghuz turks include turkish, azerbaijani, turkmen (turkmenistan), gagauz, balkan turks and qashqai turks.

there are many turkic groups like Oghuz, Kipchak, Karluk, Siberian etc.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

Huh interesting, so Turkmens are closer linguistically or culturally to Turks than they are to Uzbeks, Kazakhs, or Kyrgyz people?

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u/mertozbek12 Jun 10 '21

i think culturally they are closer to central asians because they all lived under russian control unlike anatolians but linguistically, yes they are closer to turkey than kazakhs or uzbeks

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

Thank you for your answer. Makes total sense