[George W. Bush]

There's some history and politics among these people that isn't readily apparent. But it would appear that some of the justification for entering Iraq to protect their cousins, the Turcomen, aren't very credible. The Turcomen don't seem to be complaining about the idea that the Kurds or Iraqis are going to pump the Kirkuk/Mosul oil either.

[Destro]

Turk is a wide classification. The Turkomen are to the "Turks" what the Dutch are to the Germans. If you really want to think about it the English people are really Germans.

Just because they speak a related language (Turkic) does not mean that they are the same people.