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Türkmen is the friend and brother of another Türkmen. This idea must be the most sacred idea of Türkmens. Within the golden personality of Türkmens, national feelings and values must be to the fore and other ideas, such as tribalism and racism must be eradicated in the golden era. In order to eradicate them, we must abandon the outdated process of identification of tribal differences. When we look into the depths of our history, we can find periods when there was no tribalism. Nevertheless, the Türkmen nation still existed in those eras. The Türkmens, starting with Oguz Han, have a history of 5000 years. 

Nations are forever, but tribes are temporary. Nationality carries a society towards eternity, while societies based on tribalism are short-lived. Every member of the Türkmen nation must accept this principle. Life depends on our understanding life and reality. The more we understand our being of Türkmen nationality, the stronger our nationality becomes. In the 21st century, the Türkmen nation gains its strength from the model of personality it puts forward.   

Two factors are necessary to be powerful: knowing our origin and devoting ourselves to our aim.

The world knows the origin and roots of the Türkmen nation. We have to know our origin well even better. As a nation we have set ourselves the target of having a great history, and we must advance towards this target with firm and determined steps. Each member of the Türkmen nation plays a part in reaching this target and he must feel responsible for his part. We are encouraged by the clarity and certainty of our target. The finite nature of life does not disturb us. We accept that our life is a period of opportunity of fixed duration granted by Allah. Well then, what is this opportunity and duration? Of


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