#Turkmen

[folkfashion]

Turkmen woman, Turkmenistan, by The Korea Time

[turkicculture]

TURKIC TRADITIONAL CLOTHES VS OTOYOMEGATARİ

[victusinveritas]

Turkoman women in their wedding costumes. Krasnovodsk, Yomud confederation of tribes; 1883 CE.

[khaperai]

Ethnic Turkmen from Afghanistan selling their hand-made rugs in the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Ummet Ozcan X Otyken Altay (Official Music Video)

Have I shared this before?

Absolute banger. All the vibes.

[yenleak]

Central Asian migrants in Russia are experiencing a new wave of discrimination. But this is much more serious than you think.

For many decades, Turkic people and other ethnic nationalities of Central Asia have been persecuted from society both in the migrating countries and in their own homelands. Every year and a half in Russia there is another wave of hatred towards us, backed up by absurd laws and inaction. We, Central Asians, are the least protected in the whole society and are now under even greater threat with the impending laws.

I don't even know what I can do to help. My relatives, the relatives of my friends, return home with disgusting experiences. Some are illegally sued for nothing.

Some just do not come back. And after a couple of months, it may turn out that they are missing or died in foreign war.

This is another reality that is being kept silent. And if earlier we could contribute to doing something to bring a loved one home, now the central asians are in serious danger. By adopting the above-mentioned law, there will be no more chance for security. We become cannon fodder for the benefit of a foreign country.

This is not just a law for which you will be given a miserable fine. This is not just one of the many restrictions that supposedly should not cause us any inconvenience. It's about how many people will suddenly start disappearing, how many fathers, husbands and brothers will not come home.

[know-o-princess]

The Empire of Matuwali

One of the major powers of the world at the time of this story is the Empire of Matuwali, the successor state which rose from the ashes of the collapse of the (Hittite-inspired) Neshara Empire several centuries prior.

Matuwali is basically a recycled version of ancient Garacania from my Gondolend setting, and like them a lot of Matuwali's style is inspired by the Turkmen people:

Not really geographically apropriate for an ethnic group indigenous to this world's version of the Anatolian peninsula, but this is fiction so shut up.

Many Matuwali nobles carry yataghan swords:

Many are purely ornamental and would make awful weapons in an actual fight.

Since Matuwali is recycled from a previous setting, its culture isn't really analogous to any real-world Late Bronze Age society. Matuwali enjoys total gender equality, with many women occupying normally traditionally male roles and vice-versa. The people of Matuwali don't have separate words for "husband" and "wife," and which one takes their spouse's name upon marriage is typically decided by financial or social status, or simple personal preference. Matuwali society also doesn't really give a shit about sexual orientation; people just like whoever they like, without anyone making even a small deal out of it.

Yemsher, the narrator of the story, is sent by her father, the king of a relatively minor city-state called Dar-Shelem in the fantasy-Levant, to Matuwali for an arranged political marriage. After the marriage her new royal husband encourages her to write down the stories she'd heard on the journey from one of the mercenaries hired to escort her entourage, which is the in-universe reason the story exists in the first place.

[zyeith]

[wawazaba]

🐸✏️🇹🇲 "gurbaga"

[folkfashion]

Turkmen bride, Turkmenistan, by Davinci Visual Maker

[turkicculture]

Turkmenistan

[khaperai]

Uzbek And Turkmen Carpet Merchants In Faryab Province, Afghanistan, 1978

[turqmu]

هویت من

من، یک تُرک

[udmurt1984]

[oylesinegelmisim]

Şarkının güzelliğiii🖤

[oldschoolfrp]

Encounter: Translucent horse