On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Chris Doss wrote:
> What's the relationship between the turkomen and turkmen of Turkmenistan
> (which just got a sweet deal vis-a-vis gas supplies to Ukraine). The same
> nationality/culture?
The same ethnicity in the broadest sense. They're part of the vast turkish crescent that stretches from the Uighurs in China through Turkey into the Middle East -- the sedimented remains of the masssive turkic migrations up through 1453, and the Ottoman empire up through 1917.
Michael