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==Immigration into Turkmenistan== | ==Immigration into Turkmenistan== | ||
*'''Turkic-speaking Oghuz''' formed the ethnic basis of the modern Turkmen population. In the 10th century, the name "Turkmen" was first applied to Oghuz groups that accepted Islam and began to occupy present-day Turkmenistan. | |||
*By the 16th century, most of those Turkmen tribes were under the nominal control of the Uzbeks. Turkmen soldiers were an important element of the Uzbek militaries of this period. | |||
*'''Russian forces''' began occupying Turkmen territory late in the 19th century. | |||
*In 1924, the '''Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic''' was formed. In 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Turkmenistan declared sovereignty as a nationalist response to perceived exploitation by Moscow. On 26 December 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. | |||
*Available figures indicate that most of Turkmenistan's citizens are '''ethnic Turkmens with sizeable minorities of Uzbeks and Russians'''. Smaller minorities include '''Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Kurds (native to the Kopet Dagh mountains), Armenians, Azeris, Balochs and Pashtuns.''' | |||
*he CIA World Factbook estimated the ethnic composition of Turkmenistan in 2003 as '''85% Turkmen, 5% Uzbek, 4% Russian and 6% other.'''<ref name="turk">"Turkmenistan", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan, accessed 1 August 2021.</ref? | |||
==Emigration From Turkmenistan== | ==Emigration From Turkmenistan== | ||
<ref> at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development | <ref> at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development | ||