Ancient Medieval Modern The Kurds in Turkmenistan form a part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space, and encompass people born in or residing in Turkmenistan who are of Kurdish origin.
In the 17th century, Abbas I of Persia and Nader Shah settled Kurdish tribes from Khuzestan alongside the Iranian-Turkmen border.
[8] More Kurds arrived to Turkmenistan in the 19th century to find unclaimed land and to escape starvation.
[10] Since the 1980s, The Kurds of Turkmenistan have been subject to government sponsored assimilation programmes.
The relations and first Contacts between Kurds and Turkmens started with the arrival of the Seljuks in the Middle East.