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Topic: Iraqi Turkoman

	Turkomans (Iraq)
		The Turkoman flag is similar to the flag [formerly] shown as the Turkoman flag on Flags of the World [actually the flag of the Iraqi National Turkoman Party].
		The majority of the Muslim Turkomans are concentrated in the north and central parts of Iraq in the provinces of Mosul, Erbil, Kirkuk and Deyalah.
		Historically, the Turkoman formed a cultural buffer zone between the Arabs in the south and the Kurds in the north.
	flagspot.net /flags/iq-turkm.html (1176 words)

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		When Ashgabat discovered the presence of Turkomans in Iraq in the early 1970s, a Turkmen literary newspaper published a number of Iraqi Turkoman short stories which had to be accompanied by vocabulary lists to aid readers in understanding the language.
		Kurds and Turkomans who settled in these places after the 1950s are the principal victims of this policy." They are required to move either to the south of the country or to the three northern governates.
		The autonomous Turkoman region would be formed between Mosul and Kirkuk, the area of the initial concentration of the Turkoman population ("Turkish Probe," 24 January).
	www.geocities.com /iraqiturkmen/david.htm (2306 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Critics of the Turkoman Front claim that it was destined to fail because of its staunch policy of noncooperation with the Kurds, the majority ethnic group in Kirkuk, Mosul, and Iraqi Kurdistan, areas where much of the Turkoman population resides.
		Korjan Bayatli, a Turkoman writing in the 26 April issue of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's daily "Al-Ta'akhi," said that Iraqi Turkomans are the descendents of nomadic Turks from the Oghuz tribes.
		Iraqi wheat imports are expected to double to 4 million tons in the next year from 2004 imports, CNN reported on 6 May. The United States is Australia's main rival for wheat contracts, but American grain traders say that contracts are marred by Iraqi government inefficiency.
	www.rferl.org /reports/iraq-report/2005/05/15-090505.asp (3212 words)

	Asia Times
		While the Iraqi government was motivated partly by the fact that some Kurdish groups cooperated with Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, documentation recovered in the Kurdish safe haven in 1991 reveals that this operation was part of a larger campaign undertaken by Saddam throughout his time in power.
		Iraqis in exile and those lucky enough to live inside the Kurdish safe haven are currently debating the framework for a federal state.
		Given the fact that the Iraqi regime has pursued a genocidal campaign of ethnic cleansing against its Kurdish community, it is imperative that any future structure of governance institutionalize protections and guarantees for all of Iraq's communities, but most notably for the Kurds who have been so brutally victimized on the basis of cultural identity.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EA21Ak03.html (6743 words)

	IRAQI TURKOMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The majority of the Muslim Turkoman are concentrated in the north and central parts of Iraq in the provinces of Mosul, Erbil, Kirkuk and Deyalah.
		The Iraqi Turkman suffer severely under the dictatorship of the Socialist Arab Baath Party, as they are not allowed to form political parties, open private schools, publish any books, magazines or newspapers or distribute any pamphlets.
		Turkman who had suffered from a massive intimidation and assimilation policy since 1971, were arrested and convicted of a variety of sentences by the revolutionary courts which refused to grant them the right of defending themselves and, as a result, hundreds of Turkman have been imprisoned and executed.
	www.tribun.com /700/783.htm (1024 words)

	[ The New Iraq ]
		The party was critical of the Iraqi National Congress in that year for its apparent disregard for the Assyrian role in the opposition.
		Al-Da'wah was represented on the Iraqi Governing Council by its former London spokesman, Ibrahim Al-Ja'fari; the prominent cleric Muhammad Bakr Al-Nasri serves as the party's religious head.
		His 700-member Free Iraqi Forces militia, operating with the approval of the U.S. military, was dismantled by the coalition in May 2003 after its members were accused of burglary, harassment, and unauthorized detention of Iraqi citizens.
	www.rferl.org /specials/IraqCrisis/specials-politicalgroups2.asp (6185 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Monitoring \| Media reports \| Profile: Turkoman parties
		The Turkoman parties represent the Turkomans of northern Iraq, an ethnic group with close cultural and linguistic ties to Anatolia.
		The Turkoman National Association works in co-operation with the Kurdish authorities, whilst the Iraqi Turkoman Front is backed by Turkey and stands in opposition to the KDP.
		The Iraqi Turkoman Front headquarters are in KDP-administered Irbil, though it opened an office in Turkey in 1996 and one in London in 1999.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/2588635.stm (633 words)

	THE NEXT IRAQI WAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The few Kurdish and Turkoman neighborhoods in the center of town that survived demolition became choked with traffic and were deprived of parks, sewers, and public transportation.
		Across the alley from the shop, a Turkoman woman selling shoes and purses told me, “We were the last family to leave the citadel.” Her father, a wealthy trader in seeds, had a large house by the western gate that overlooked the river.
		A ragged turquoise flag with a white crescent moon and star—the symbol of the militant Iraqi Turkoman Front—hung limply in the heat.
	www.veteransforpeace.org /The_Next_Iraqi_War_093004.htm (9460 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Tomorrow will be ours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the wake of the Iraqi administration, and in the aftermath of demographic changes implemented by the Ba'ath Party, claim over the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk remains a contentious issue between various ethnic groups.
		Dr Muzaffar Arsalan is the founder of the Iraqi Turkoman National Front and a well-known Iraqi opposition figure who has been speaking about the Turkoman issue in the international arena -- at political forums and in universities -- for many years.
		Iraqis must work together to govern their country in order to reap the benefits of its extensive natural resources.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/637/re6.htm (961 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - Mosul: Iraqi Turkoman Front agency opened in Mosul Daily News Turkey
		Iraqi Turkoman Front opened an agency in the war-torn city of Mosul.
		Turkomans gathered for the opening ceremony of their office, danced traditional halay.
		Iraqi Turkoman Front official Uzeyir Ahat said in his speech of the ceremony that Turkomans would have greater days in Iraq.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=2003052419435284 (211 words)

	New Strategy for Turkoman Front in Iraq
		In a dramatic turnaround, a leading official in the Turkoman Front indicated the group was now willing to countenance a federal Kurdistan, as long as the disputed city of Kirkuk retained a special separate status that gave all ethnic groups a say in how it is governed.
		The front, a major Turkoman political force which is aligned with Turkey, has come under pressure to change since the January 30 ballot, and now looks set to reform itself.
		Tahseen Kahya, a former head of the same regional council who represents the Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman -- which was part of the United Iraqi Alliance in the national-level ballot -- underlined that the question of who governs Kirkuk remains highly sensitive because of the area's complex mix of ethnicities and sects.
	www.aina.org /news/20050310114243.htm (1092 words)

	Iraqi political groupings and individuals
		Iraqi National Accord (INA, al-Wifaq): created in December 1990, on the initiative of Saudi Prince Turki ibn Faysal, with the support of the CIA, and Jordanian and British agencies.
		Iraqi National Alliance (al-Tahaluf al-Watani al-Iraqi): a reformist opposition grouping in Iraq that was tolerated under the Ba‘th regime, coming to prominence in Nov02, and with Ba‘thist and Nasirist participants.
		Went on to run the Independent Iraqi Alliance, based in Syria, until he suffered a stroke and the group was disbanded.
	middleeastreference.org.uk /iraqiopposition.html (11453 words)

	Iraqi Turkman Front
		A coalition of 26 Turkman groups including: the Turkoman Shura Council, the Iraqi Turkoman National Party, the Turkomaneli, and the Independent Turkomans.
		Strongly supports having a major role in the future governance of Kirkuk (which it portrays as the Turkman capital) and Irbil, which it identifies at Turkman territory, and thus a player in the 2002 conflict between the KDP and the Turkish government.
		Iraqi Turkman Front was established in April of 1995.
	www.iraqinews.com /party_iraqi_turkman_front.shtml (116 words)

	Iraqi Turkoman: Worried By Kurdish Ambitions, Turkomans Seek Greater Recognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Within Iraq, Taylor says, many Turkomans are worried the creation of an independent Kurdish state will make them an embattled minority in an area that has been their home for hundreds of years.
		There are Turkoman groups that are sponsored by [Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader] Jalal Talabani which work in opposition to these guys; they are sponsored by the Kurds.
		Ethnically and culturally, Iraqi Turkomans are close to both Azeris and Turkmens in Turkmenistan.
	www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=27&par=1559 (936 words)

	Iraqi Turkoman: Iraq - Thousands were Unable to Vote in North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Those attending the demonstration were mainly Turkmen and Christians, carrying Iraqi flags and shouting through loudspeakers about irregularities they had allegedly seen in the north.
		Eight million voters inside the country and nearly 300,000 Iraqis living overseas had the chance to vote in the election to choose a 275-member interim national assembly along with a new regional parliament in the north.
		Iraqi Turkoman: Declaration of the Turkmen Committee for the Unity of Iraq
	www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=27&par=1923 (921 words)

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		Dubai-based Iraqi television Al-Fayha announced 15 May 2005 that it would be closing down following a refusal by the UAE government to renew the channel's licence, according to one of the channel's own presenters.
		Turkomaneli TV and radio was launched in Kirkuk in April 2003 and broadcasts on behalf of the Iraqi Turkoman Front.
		Turkomaneli Radio opened radio stations in Talla'far and Mosul on 6 and 8 May 2003 respectively, the Iraqi Turkoman Front newspaper Turkomaneli reported on 11 May. The channel is available on UHF channel 56 in Kirkuk, and on the Eurasiasat satellite at 42 degrees east.
	www.w4uvh.net /mediraq.txt (4537 words)

	Situation of human rights in IraqNote by the Secretary
		Although the practice of forced relocation and deportation by the Government of Iraq to decrease the presence of the Kurdish and Turkoman population living in that area and to strengthen their hold on the important economic and strategic Governorate of Kirkuk is not new, the scale of those activities increased in 1997.
		During the last week of August 1997, Iraqi authorities reportedly notified 440 Kurdish households in the district towns of Jalula and Qara-Tepa (west of Khanaquin) to leave their homes for southern Iraq or to areas administered by the “Kurdistan Regional Government”.
		Iraqi law should be brought into line with accepted international standards regarding protection of physical integrity rights, including the right to life, protection against disapperance, prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degreding treatment, providing humane conditions for all persons under detention, and assurance of the minimum standards of jdicial guarantees.
	www.iraqiturkman.org.tr /turkmen24.htm (1793 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Fair means or foul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With the referendum on the new Iraqi constitution three weeks away, the interim government appears more determined than ever to foist the constitution on the people of Iraq, with areas where a no campaign was being mobilised subject to sustained attack.
		Tel Afar's majority Turkomans suspect Kurdish parties of plotting to include the city in any future autonomous Kurdish province, and are fiercely opposed to such a move.
		Iraqis realise that the US administration will continue to push for the constitution, both inside and outside Iraq.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/762/re1.htm (772 words)

	THE IRAQI TURKOMANS: WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY WANT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A key to understanding why the maintenance of Iraq's territorial integrity is viewed by many as critical is a knowledge of the country's enormous ethnic and religious diversity, the aspirations of these groups, and the problems they face now.
		The convening of the First Iraqi Turkoman Congress was but the first step in reattaining an international identity; the convening of the February 1999 congress in Irbil be a further step in this direction.
		The last stratum in the Iraqi Turkmen is the Ottoman, or modern Turkish stratum, which became a cultural factor to be reckoned with in the late XVIIIth, XIXth and XXth centuries.
	www.tribun.com /700/780.htm (822 words)

	Denial Of Water To Iraqi Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is a serious breach of international humanitarian law, and is deepening Iraqi opposition to the United States, other Coalition members, and the Iraqi interim government.
		Iraqi TV station Al-Sharqiyah reported that technical teams were working to 'restore the power and water supply and repair the sewage networks in Samarra' (9).
		On 1 October the Iraqi Islamic Party issued a statement criticising the US attack on Fallujah which 'cut off water, electricity, and medical supplies', and arguing that such an approach 'will further aggravate and complicate the security situation'.
	rense.com /general59/denialofwatertoiraq.htm (1847 words)

	Iraqi Political Parties
		The Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP), established in 1960, is the major Sunni political organization in the country and is represented by Muhsin Abd al-Hamid on the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.
		The IIP seeks to preserve the leading role Sunnis have had in running the country starting with the establishment of the modern Iraqi state in the beginning of the 20th century.
		The religious and political activities of the Iraqi Sunnis are not restricted to the Iraqi Islamic Party.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/party.htm (509 words)

	Iraqi Turkoman: 'US-made' Kerkuk City Council Decides Once Again in Favor of the Kurds
		Iraqi Turkoman: 'US-made' Kerkuk City Council Decides Once Again in Favor of the Kurds
		In a previous report from SOITM entitled "Violation of the Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Continues"1, we reported on how the US occupation authorities in Iraq have arbitrarily and unfairly "made up" the Kerkuk City Council.
		We, representatives of the Turkmen community in Iraq, call upon the United Nations and all the Human Rights Organizations to reject the political maneuver of the Kurds and refuse the postponement of the elections in Kerkuk.
	www.aina.org /news/20050111104549.htm (952 words)

	Iraqi Links
		Another Collective Iraqi art site that give you information about the most famous Iraqi artists, their biography and samples of their work.
		Iraqi Babies WebSite This site is a very good contribution to show the inhuman effect of the sanctions.
		Iraqi Sport On Line This Unique site will provide you with the current news about all the Types of Iraqi sport.
	www.angelfire.com /nt/Gilgamesh/links.html (453 words)

	Empire Notes
		They met under the auspices of the Iraqi National Founding Conference, a broad, nonsectarian front that includes Sunni, Shi'a, Arab, Kurd, Islamist, and secular parties within it, with points of unity as follows: opposition to the occupation and freedom of any association with either the crimes of the occupation or those of Saddam's regime.
		Iraqi Police checkpoints are present in much greater number throughout the city in enforcement of the new curfew.
		So, the unstated factor is clearly that Iraqi expatriates would be much more likely to ratify a U.S. choice for puppet figurehead than Iraqis living in Iraq would, so this new policy helps the United States in its quest to pretend that it has brought democracy to Iraq while fixing the results in advance.
	www.empirenotes.org /november04.html#08nov041 (8876 words)

	Forum
		The delegation expressed its grave concern about the plight of the Iraqi people under Saddam's regime and urged the United States and the international community to take immediate steps to ease their suffering.
		Among the steps urged is the creation of a new independent international organization for the relief of the Iraqi people, which has access to the $9 billion in the Iraqi escrow account at the Banque National de Paris.
		The group pointed out that Saddam's refusal to use these funds to provide relief to the Iraqi people was part of his campaign to exploit their suffering for propaganda purposes.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /forum/events/2000/iseptember/20_incmeeting.html (337 words)

	Forty-Seven Bodies Boycott Iraq Elections - Global News on the World Crisis Web
		In what could cost the new Iraqi government its necessary legitimacy to win the hearts and minds of the people, forty-seven Sunni, Shiite, Turkoman and Christian bodies have so far declared their boycott for the general election slated for early next year, due to the grisly US attacks in Fallujah.
		Concluding a one-day conference in the headquarters of the influential Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars in Baghdad’s Um Al-Qora mosque, a plethora of bodies representing Iraq’s religious mosaic agreed that the open-ended Fallujah offensive was an obstacle to an effective political participation.
		The communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net, said the January election does not speak for the Iraqi people as long as it is “imposed” by the US-backed interim government and rejected by a clear majority of political and religious powers.
	www.world-crisis.com /news/1089_0_1_0_M (514 words)

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