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 | | U.S. administration established city councils in Kerkuk and other Turkmen towns, Turkmens were represented by one fifth of the total number. | | | Turkmens protested Governing Council appointments through many protest demonstrations in Baghdad, Kerkuk and Tuz. | | | 1925, Under the Constitution, the Kurds and the Turkmens had the right to use their own languages in schools, government offices and to have their own language press. |
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| | Reply to Can Someone proof to me how Kerkuk is Iraqi city with Turkmen characteristic |
| | The Turkmen had won overwhelmingly in all the regional voting in Kirkuk governorate, which took place at the time (1958 and 1959) the Kurds held all legal and political machinery in Kirkuk City. | | | The looting was a purposeful act meant to remove all official evidence proving the Turkmen presence in the Kirkuk. | | | However Al-Barzanji was sentenced to death and hanged in 1963. |
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http://www.iraq4u.com/forum/m_2597/tm.htm
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| | Pravda.RU Former Turkmen deputy Prime Minister detained on suspicion of conspiracy |
| | In the morning on November 25, Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov was fired at in his motorcade on his way to work. | | | Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov described all "accusations of Uzbek assistance to the organizers of the coup d'etat in Turkmenistan as unsubstantiated." However, on December 21 the Turkmen Foreign Ministry declared the Uzbek Ambassador persona non grata for "actions inappropriate to the status of a diplomat" and gave him 24 hours to leave the country. | | | As a result, according to data of the Turkmen law enforcement bodies, several men were wounded. |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/cis/2002/12/26/41419.html
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| | CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST |
| | Abdurashid Kadyrov, the Uzbek Ambassador to Turkmenistan, was accused of activities incompatible with diplomatic status and was given 24 hours by the Turkmen authorities to leave the country. | | | Other observers speculated that the Turkmen president had arrived in Bukhara with a separate security agenda. | | | BACKGROUND: The Bukhara summit of Turkmen President Saparmurad Niyazov and Uzbek President Islam Karimov last month marked the first meeting of the two presidents since an assassination attempt on the life of the Turkmen President in 2002 soured relations between the two Central Asian countries. |
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http://www.cacianalyst.org/view_article.php?articleid=2910
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| | The Southern Azeri-Iraqi Turkmen Connection |
| | The convening of the First Iraqi Turkoman Congress was but the first step in reacquiring an international identity; the convening of the February 1999 congress in Irbil was a further step in this direction. | | | At the First (Iraqi) Turkoman Congress, held in Irbil from 4-7 October 1997, a "Declaration of Principles" was adopted. | | | This is because, as stated in article 3, the Turkic language in Iraq was much closer to that of Istanbul than Turkmenistan. |
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http://www.tribun.com/700/779.htm
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| | UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page |
| | Turkmen (sometimes along with Russian) is used for administrative, judicial, and other official proceedings. | | | Turkmen was made the state language of the Republic of Turkmenistan in May of 1990. | | | It is considered the third state language after Turkmen and Russian. |
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http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=68
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Afghanistan: Ethnic Turkmen Seek Peace-Building Role |
| | But the visiting Turkmen delegates say the idea was warmly received in meetings with Karzai and top cabinet members. | | | The loya jirga process is to lead to the establishment of a national parliament and government through elections in two years. | | | Delegates of the council recently visited Kabul and spoke with interim administration Chairman Hamid Karzai and a number of key ministers. |
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http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp010602.shtml
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| | Turkmen people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Iran, where they are primarily concentrated in the provinces of Golestan and North Khorasan. | | | Afghanistan, where in 1995 there were some 500,000 speakers of Turkmen according to the Ethnologue, concentrated primarily along the Turkmenistan border in the provinces of Faryab, Jowzjan, and Baghlan | | | According to Zaman Daily Newspaper, some ten Turkmen individuals have been elected to the National Assembly of Iraq, including 5 elected on the United Iraqi Alliance list, 3 from the Iraqi Turkmen Front, and 2 from the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan. |
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http://www.lexington-fayette.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Turkmen_people
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| | Turkmen Hold Anti-US Rally in Kirkuk |
| | The Turkmen Front of Iraq received 93,480 votes and three seats in the 275-seat Iraqi parliament following the elections held on January 30. | | | In addition, Anatolia news agency reported that the Turkmen Front offices were raided by US troops in mid-February, though there was no immediate confirmation of the raids from US forces. | | | Turkmen are a Turkic language-speaking minority in northern regions of Iraq who are supported by Turkey. |
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| | Aljazeera.Net - Iraqi Turkmen head to the polls |
| | The majority of Iraqi voters in Turkey are Turkmen expatriates wary over the future of the ethnically volatile oil-rich city of | | | has been a Turkmen city for 300 years. | | | Pointing to his 19-year-old daughter who was also casting her ballot, Saatci proudly said: "She was born here but if you ask her she will say she is from |
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5642AEAE-DC2A-43D4-ACCC-5D80213A766B.htm
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| | The Tribal Gol in Turkmen Carpets-VG Moshkova |
| | As time passed this khalyk became a special decoration, a kind of lambrequin on the door, the kapunuk. | | | Until recently, marriages among the Turkmen were always confined with this khalk, (ie. | | | This 'lobed' gol shape is thought to be older, more archaic. |
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http://www.tcoletribalrugs.com/article35Moshkova.html
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| | Insight on the News: Turkmen Should Be Given Human-Rights Protections - Brief Article |
| | Iraq's 1925 constitution offered equal dignity to Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen. | | | Iraqi textbooks taught that Turkmen were responsible for the Mongol and Tamerlane plunderings of Mesopotamia, for the destruction and corruption of the Arab civilization and for espionage and secessionist aspirations as agents of TUrkey. | | | Turkmen were granted "cultural rights" in their own areas, which soon were dishonored by the Iraqi government bent on flooding the oil-rich land with more politically reliable southern Arabs, a form of ethnic cleansing. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_37_16/ai_65913589
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| | The Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq - by Christopher Deliso |
| | his comical story aside, to his credit Taylor is magnanimous enough to admit that it was not until his eighth trip into Iraq that he himself stumbled across the Turkmen population. | | | However, I suspect that as with Taylor's previous works on the Balkan wars (Inat and Diary of an Uncivil War), it will be included on various college syllabi in Canada and the United States. | | | In his numerous forays into Iraq, both before and after the fall of Saddam, Taylor had reported on ignored issues like the humanitarian disaster incurred by UN sanctions, American missile strikes that the Pentagon denied, and the war's civilian toll. |
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http://www.antiwar.com/deliso?articleid=4185
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Turkmen leader redefines youth and age |
| | According to his own decree the 62-year-old Turkmen leader is in his inspirational period. | | | The Turkmen leader proposes renaming January Turkmenbashi after his official name, which means Head of all the Turkmen. | | | The Turkmen president has also decided to rename the months of the year |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2191117.stm
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| | Iraq's Turkmen chase every vote in bid for tighter grip on oil regions |
| | Participating in the elections is a national, patriotic and religious duty. | | | Other divisions are threatening the fragile Turkmen bid to muster votes in the election, with party rifts adding to the religious differences. | | | Iraq's Turkmen chase every vote in bid for tighter grip on oil regions |
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| | 13 killed in N. Iraq as Kurds fight Turkmen -DAWN - International; August 24, 2003 |
| | Tensions have risen in Tuz Khurmatu as the Kurds have demanded that the town be transferred to the Kurdish-majority governorate of Kirkuk from the Arab-majority province of Salahuddin, in which it currently lies. | | | A Turkmen member of the city’s local council, earlier said three Turkmen, including two policemen, were arrested during the demonstration in Kirkuk. | | | KIRKUK, Aug 23: Three Turkmen were shot dead by police in Iraq’s northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Saturday after they opened fire on a police building during a demonstration, Governor Abdul Rahman Mustafa said. |
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http://www.dawn.com/2003/08/24/int1.htm
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| | A new Turkmen policy |
| | This is the framework of Ankara’s Turkmen policy. | | | This approach is also the will of the Iraqi Turkmen. | | | We can say that Turkey has formed a new line in its policy which could also be a state policy. |
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http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=39100
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| | Turkmen Rugs |
| | Turkmen craftswomen are to weave 7200 m2 of carpets for the mosque, being built in the home village of President of state Saparmurat Niyazov, Kipchak. | | | The Beshir fall under the Arsary/Ersari confederation which split from the Salor dominated Turkmen confederation at a point after the foundation of the Janid dynasty and certainly no later than early in the Manghit dynasty. | | | The primary Oguz descendents are the Norther Azeri, the southern Azeri, and the Turkmen. |
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| | Introduction to Turkmen Trappings |
| | However, finally when the Russian government allocated tremendously increased resources and manpower (like the government of the United States did against the American Indians) they succeeded. | | | This was definitely not the framework under which all later Turkmen weaving were manufactured. | | | This war had lasted for several decades and the Turkmen, like the native Indians of the American southwest, were able to remain victorious against superior military technology and numbers. |
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http://www.weavingartmuseum.org/ex3_trappings.htm
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| | FunReports.Com: Turkmen president writes pomes and reads them on TV |
| | Turkmen president writes pomes and reads them on TV Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov read his own poems on the air of all three channels of the national television. | | | The Turkmen president rests and writes poems there in the residence. | | | The president wrote poems about his love to the fatherland, about the greatest figures in the history of the Turkmen nation, about the president's own perception of the natural beauty and human values. |
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| | Turkmen language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This page was last modified 03:04, 29 September 2005. | | | Turkmen is written using the Cyrillic alphabet or the Arabic alphabet, although in recent years, President Saparmurat Niyazov has decreed that Turkmen was now to be written in a specially modified and adapted version of the Roman alphabet. | | | Turkmen (Туркмен, ISO 639-1: tk, ISO 639-2: tuk) is the name of the national language of Turkmenistan. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Turkmen fears of Iraqi conflict |
| | So says Jawdat Najjar, a Turkmen who is minister for his community's affairs in the Kurdish-dominated regional government which runs this part of northern Iraq. | | | Khalis Yunis is a Turkmen who runs an antique shop in Irbil. | | | Today, in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Turkmen, enjoys all the same rights as Kurdish and other citizens... |
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| | MAR Data Assessment for Turkmen in Iran |
| | This type of persecution, along with the Iran-Iraq war, caused many of them to flee to Turkey. | | | Shortly after the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Turkmen rebelled against the new government demanding autonomy, official recognition of their language, and representation in local revolutionary councils dominated by Shi'i Muslims. | | | This caused many Turkmen to flee to the Soviet Union but most returned in the 1930s due to the Soviet policies of collectivization and religious prejudices. |
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http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=63008
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| | In Search of Turkmen Carpets |
| | Furthermore, an established weaving industry existed in the heart of Turkmen territory in the early 1880s. | | | A matter of deeper significance is revealed in these reports: they state it was the poor who wove. | | | Russian military activity gave rise to a process which might ironically be termed a special kind of bazaar. |
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| | 11.1 Links to Turkmen in Iraq Azerbaijanis in Iraq - Little Known People by Gazanfar Pashayev |
| | This exhibition was organized by Folklorist Gazanfar Pashayev. | | | Similarly, in Azerbaijan, there is the 15th-century palace located in Baku's Inner City called the Shirvanshah Palace, built between 1420-1460 where the residency of Shirvanshah state situated that was created during the first part of the 6th century and lasted till 1538 and was managed by the Shirvanshahs dynasty. | | | Wars and the resulting treaties in the area eventually separated the Azerbaijanis living in Iraq and Azerbaijan. |
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http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai111_folder/111_articles/111_turkmen_iraq.html
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| | Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Turkmen-Afghan-Pakistani gas pipeline accord published |
| | This agreement is valid for three years and can be prolonged with the written consent of the Parties six months before the expiry of the agreement. | | | This agreement, done in Turkmen, Dari, English and Russian in the city of Islamabad on 30 May 2002 in three originals in each of these languages, with one for each side. | | | The supervisory committee is to present a progress report on the pipeline project at a meeting of the heads of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan in [the Turkmen capital] city of Ashgabat in October 2002. |
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| | The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles |
| | Ask the Lord to raise up missionaries to go to Iran and share Christ with the Turkmen. | | | The Kara Kum ("Black Sand") Desert lies in the center of Turkestan, and has often served as a place of refuge for the Turkmen during wartime. | | | Ask God to raise up a strong local church among the Turkmen by the year 2000. |
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| | Turkmen language -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Turkmen is a member of the southwestern, or Oguz, branch of the Turkic languages. | | | The Turkish-descended Uzbeks and Turkmens farm the plains north of... | | | More results on "Turkmen language" when you join. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9073857?tocId=9073857
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| | This can be confirmed by numerous international awards at the International Exhibitions and Fairs in | | | The cotoring of Turkmen rugs is refined and reserved. | | | Each woman was taught this iraditional art from the early age. |
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| | The Turkmen of Iraq |
| | Turkish support for an American attack on Baghdad would probably be conditional on a protected position for the Iraqi Turkomans under a post-Saddam government. | | | by the Turkmen People Party's temporary administrative board |
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| | How To Make Turkmen Plov |
| | Turkmen plov uses cottonseed oil, which isn't available in American stores.) | | | This method requires a lot of guesswork, and I still can't seem to get it right. | | | The recipe below is closer to the Turkmen version, and it serves 6 to 10 people. |
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| | Iraqi Turkmen International Migration Report 2005 |
| | Most emigration, 80 per cent, happened after 1990, which would seem to imply people had been forced to flee during the wars of the last 15 years. | | | Send mail to editor@migrationletters.com with questions or comments about this web site. | | | Dr Sirkeci, commenting on the findings, said: “Turkmen have been suffering from the Arabisation policies of the Saddam regime as they were forced to resign their ethnic identities in favour of Arab identity. |
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| | 1st int'l confab on Turkmen history due in Gorgan - Irna |
| | "Specialists from the International Institute of Turkmen, Society of Turk History, Ankara and Izmir universities, Baku University and Dushanbe University will attend the upcoming seminar," he added. | | | The First International Conference on Turkmen History will open at Fakhreddin As'ad Gorgani Hall in the provincial capital of Gorgan during the current week. | | | The two-day conference will be attended by intellectuals from five regional countries including Iran, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Turkey. |
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| | Turks.US Daily News - Eleven Iraqi Turkmen were killed in two days Daily News |
| | In addition, two Turkmen were shot dead by US soldiers. | | | Then on Saturday three more Turkmen were killed by local police during a demonstration. | | | Eleven Iraqi Turkmen were killed in two days of fighting with Kurds in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk over the weekend. |
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| | TurkoTek Discussion Forums - Turkmen Flatweaves |
| | Tribal attribution of flatwoven Turkmen bags appears to be uncharted territory. | | | Steve and I have reiterated that there is not much known about Turkmen flatweaves and Philippe has reminded us that we may be "cycling" a bit in our conversations. | | | Palette is helpful, but I have seen few Turkmen flatweaves in which the palette seems unambiguously like those of some tribal group's pile work. |
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http://www.turkotek.com/misc_00007/discussion.htm
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| | OHCHR: Turkmen () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| | Closely related to Turkish, Turkmen is a member of the Turkic branch of the Altaic family of languages. | | | Turkmen is spoken in the Republic of Turkmenistan lying on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea and bordering on Iran and Afghanistan, by about 3 million people, over 5 million in all countries (one million speakers are in Iran). | | | The literary language is based on the Teke dialect and literary tradition is strong. |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/tck.htm
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| | Chodor Turkmen Trapping |
| | This piece is of a type that has a structural variation with a deeply depressed warp more commonly associated with the Turkmen weavings of the Salor. | | | There is a limited number of Chodor weavings of this type which are old, with all good dyes in addtion to classical motifs. | | | This curled leaf design is one of the more classic patterns to be seen in Turkmen weaving, an element which has yet to be satisfactorily explained as it must certainly symbolize something deep and relevant to the Turkmen. |
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http://www.tcoletribalrugs.com/resources/rugshtml/cchodortrapping.html
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| | Turkmen language, alphabets and pronunciation |
| | Turkmen only started to appear in writing at the beginning of the 20th century, when it was written with the Arabic script. | | | Since Turkmenistan declared independence in 1991, Turkmen has been written with a version of the Latin alphabet based on Turkish. | | | Learn Turkic languages - Turkish, Turkmen and Uzbek |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/turkmen.htm
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| | Turkmen visa |
| | You must verify travel requirements with the Turkmen Embassy or at one of their consulates prior to finalizing your travel plans. | | | IMPORTANT: The information appearing on this website is not necessarilly up to date. |
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http://www.aneki.com/visa/Turkmen_visa.html
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| | Ethnologue 14 report for language code:TCK |
| | The so-called 'Turkmen' in Syria, and possibly Iraq and Jordan, actually speak an ancient form of Turkmen; so-called 'Turkmen' in Tibet may speak a different Turkic language. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TCK
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Ukrainian Premier Looking Into Debts From Turkmen Gas | | | For strategic reasons, the RFE/RL Turkmen site [Azatradio.org] has been removed from the Internet. | | | Subscribe I Listen I RFE/RL Languages I About RFE/RL I Search I Site Map I Homepage |
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| | TURKMEN |
| | Source: New Testament in Turkmen language, Institute for Bible Translation, Istanbul 2002 |
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