Turkmens Of Iran

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Ali Hamed Haghdoust

Turkmen Sahra, Kalaleh, Maraveh Tapeh, Gonbad- e Kaovous, southeast of the Caspian Sea, Golestan province, Nnorth of Iran. 2011 - 2020. The Turkmens are of Iranian Sunni tribes, living in the Turkmen Sahra, north of Golestan Province in the East of the Caspian Sea, and in the Raz and Jorglan region of northern North Khorasan Province, along a 70-kilometer border with the Republic of Turkmenistan.

They are of the Oghuz Turks race and their language roots are Turkish. In the past, some Turkmens farmed and considered as sedentists. However, some of them were engaged in horse breeding and pastoralism; and migrated from place to place in search of pastures.

The Turkmen nomads, considered Kheyva and Bukhara to the Turkmen Sahra of Iran as their homeland, but during the 1881 border agreement between the Russian and Iranian governments, the Turkmen areas were divided into northern and southern parts. The northern part went under Russian rule and the southern part under Iranian tutelage.

Four decades after this agreement, and following the implementation of the policy of monopolization and disarmament of the Turkmens by Reza Pahlavi in 1925, many struggles took place against the central government. One of the most important of them was the struggles of "Osman Akhund".

Like other Turkic, Kurdish, Arab and Baloch People, Turkmens share ethnic, cultural and linguistic commonalities with neighboring people across the borders. They live on both sides of a border with the same culture and lineage, the same name, but different countries.

 

 

 

 

 

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