Oghuz Turks in Turkmenistan, Turkmen Sahra

Y dna haplogroups R1b -37 % j2- 17 % G -12 % R1a - 9 % Q -5% N 6 % L 6 % Turkic people The Turkomen also known as Oghuz Turks (a linguistic term designating the Western Turkic or Oghuz languages from the Oghur languages) were a historical Turkic tribal confederation in Central Asia during the early medieval Turkic expansion. The name Oghuz is just the Common Turkic word for “tribe“. They are referred to as “Western Turks“ because they moved west from other Turkic peoples after the Göktürk empire