Syrian Turkmen (Arabic: تركمان سوريا, romanized: Turkumān Sūriyā; Turkish: Suriye Türkmenleri) [a] are Syrian citizens of Turkish origin who mainly trace their roots to Anatolia (i.e. modern …

Syrian Turkmen Brigades (Turkish: Suriye Türkmen Tugayları; Arabic: كتائب تركمان سوريا), also called the United Turkmen Army (Turkish: Birleşik Türkmen Ordusu; Arabic: الجيش التركماني الموحد), are an …

Turkmen (Turkmen: Türkmençe, Түркменче) is a Turkic language spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia, mainly of Turkmenistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. It has an estimated five million …

Nov 24, 2015 · The Turkmen are ethnic Turks who have lived in the region of Syria, Iraq and Iran since the 11th Century. They are mainly concentrated in the north, in the Turkmen Mountain …

Jan 9, 2025 · Syrian Turkmens have historically settled in a wide geography extending from Aleppo to the Golan within the borders of present-day Syria. Those who settled in these lands …

Nov 25, 2015 · Tensions between Russia and Turkey have increased lately over Russian bombing of Turkmen tribesmen in northern Syria. Just this week, Turkey summoned the …

Nov 25, 2015 · The shooting down of a Russian military plane by Turkey in Syria's Latakia province and the killing of one of the Russian pilots by a rebel group that includes local …

There is a large ethnic Syrian Turkmen minority in Syria, numbering over 100,000. The community descends from Central Asian Turkic migrants who arrived in the region with the Turkic Seljuk …

Feb 14, 2018 · Syrian Turkmens are a particularly sensitive element for Turkey who have linguistic, genetic, cultural, and mythological ties to their distant relatives in Turkey. …

Feb 25, 2025 · The Turkmen community’s centuries-old heritage is one of Syria’s “essential components,” according to the head of the Syrian Turkmen Associations Federation. At a …