Turkmen in the Middle East hesitate to admit that they are Turkmen because of a history of oppression from the majority cultures in which they live. They live in the Fertile Crescent of Iraq and are not related to the Turkmen of Turkmenistan. Each Turkmen tribe has its own individual history of when they migrated to the Middle East. Some tribes arrived at the time of Genghis Khan; others arrived later, during the Ottoman Empire. They can feel squeezed between the Arabs and Kurds of Iraq. They’re suspicious of outsiders and tend toward radical Islam. In the entire Middle East, there are only a few known Turkmen believers. Give thanks to God that Turkmen in Iraq have access to the New Testament in their language! Thank Him for a couple of believers with a burden for the Turkmen people. Pray that the Lord will bless them and bear fruit from their faithfulness. Pray that lasting fruit will come from Turkmen encountering the gospel online, and ask that gospel encounters will impact the Turkmen for their eternal good. Pray that God will use their dissatisfaction in politics and religion to prompt them to seek out another way.