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Minorities in Iraq

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for full independence rather than reconciliation with Iraq." Almost no other political or social group in the region is agreeable to the idea of Kurdish independence. Iraq's neighboring countries such as Turkey are particularly opposed to the movement because they fear that an independent Iraqi Kurdistan would strengthen Kurdish independence movements in their own territories.
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signed decree number 666 which legalized and ordered the confiscation, forced deportation, exile and detention of Feyli Kurds. Saddam justified the decree by accusing Feyli Kurds of having "foreign origin" and "disloyalty to the people and father land and to the political and social principles of the
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region, told the Kurdish parliament the national leadership were "failures" and that the Iraqi flag was a symbol of his people's past oppression by Baghdad: "If at any moment we, the Kurdish people and parliament, consider that it is in our interests to declare independence, we will do so and we will
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and the fall of Saddam, brought renewed hope to the Kurds. The Kurds have since been working towards developing the area and pushing for democracy in the country. However, most Kurds overwhelmingly favor becoming an independent nation. "In the January 2005 Iraqi elections, 98.7 percent of Kurds voted
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There are about 60,000–400,000 Shabaks in Iraq. They are an ethnic and religious minority, retaining their own distinct Pre Islamic religion. They are an Indo-European people and speak an Indo-European language with elements of Turkish and Arabic infused. The Shabak's origin are not well-known, many
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Turkomans are descendents of Ottoman Empire-era soldiers, traders and civil servants... The 1957 census, Iraq's last reliable count before the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958, put the country's population at 6,300,000 and the Turkoman population at 567,000, about 9 per cent...Subsequent censuses,
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period, was the most important in the world with 30,000–50,000 of the 70,000 total living in the country mainly in the area around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mandaeans, although an ethnic and religious minority, consider themselves Iraqi and have supported the Iraqi nation patriotically. They
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During the oil boom of the 1970s, massive infrastructure projects were proposed by the government. Among them was the construction of a road in Baghdad, where an old Jewish cemetery lies on the route. The cemetery was transferred to another location in the Shi'ite neighborhood of Sadr City, under
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According to the 1957 Iraqi census the Turkmen/Turkoman had a population of 567,000, accounting for 9% of the total Iraqi population. By 2013, the Iraqi Ministry of Planning said that there were 3 million Turkmen/Turkoman, out of a population of 34.7 million, forming 8.65% of the population. The
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north. Maliki's Arab Shi'ite-led government was locked in a dispute with the autonomous Kurdish regional government, which has banned the use of the Iraqi state flag on public buildings. The prime minister issued a blunt statement on Sunday saying: "The Iraqi flag is the only flag that should be
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There's a strong conflict of opinions regarding the origins of Iraqi Turkmen, however, it is certain that they settled down during the Ottoman rule in the northwest of Mosul, whence they spread to eastern Baghdad. Once there, they became high ranked officers, experts, traders, and executives in
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The largest number of Turkmen immigrants followed the army of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent when he conquered all of Iraq in 1535. Throughout their reign, the Ottomans encouraged the settlement of immigrant Turkmen along the loosely formed boundary that divided Arab and Kurdish settlements in
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The modern Turkish influence was strong until Arabic became the new offıcial language in the 1930s. A certain diglossia Turkish vs. Iraqi Turkic is still observable. Turkish as a prestige language has exerted profound influence on Iraqi Turkic. Thus, the syntax differs sharply from neighboring
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The last reliable census in Iraqi – and the only one in which participants could declare their mother tongue – was in 1957. It found that Turkomans were the third largest ethnicity in Iraq, after Arabs and Kurds. The Turkomans numbered 567,000 out of a total population of
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population. They are known for being very wealthy businessmen, bankers, merchants, politicians, senators, highly educated and dominated the politics and economy of Iraq especially during the 30s until the 70s. Unlike the other sunni Kurds the Feylis speak the
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residential agglomerations lined up along the vast, fertile plains, and mingled with Kurds, Assyrians, Arabs, and other confessions. With the creation of the new Iraqi state in 1921, Iraqi Turkmen managed to maintain their socioeconomic status.
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region – which is a political term used by the Turkmen/Turkoman to define the vast swath of territory in which they have historically had a dominant population. In particular, the Turkmen/Turkoman consider the capital of Turkmeneli to be
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was kidnapped on February 23, 2008. Three of his companions were also murdered during the kidnapping. His body was found in March, and an Iraqi Al-Qaeda leader, Ahmed Ali Ahmed, known as Abu Omar, was sentenced to death in May for this
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The Assyrian minority came under persecution during Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime. When Hussein first assumed power, the Assyrian population there numbered 2 million to 2.5 million. Many have fled to neighboring countries such as
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in 1785, however, there is no clear reference to Turkmeneli until the end of the twentieth century. According to Khalil Osman there has been "a raft of federalist schemes" proposed by various Turkmen/Turkoman political parties.
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discriminated against the community. Although the Turks were recognized as a constitutive entity of Iraq (alongside the Arabs and Kurds) in the constitution of 1925, the Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman were later denied this status.
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Turkmen, Iraqi citizens of Turkish origin, are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq after Arabs and Kurds, and they are said to number about 3 million of Iraq's 34.7 million citizens according to the Iraqi Ministry of
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in Iraq, Saddam Hussein even allocated the land owned by the Iraqi ministry of finance to the Mandaeans in the 1980s, granting the Mandaeans a free 1,200 square meters of land, which allowed for the construction of the
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took power in Iraq, the new government, in order to end the Kurdish revolt, granted the Kurds their own limited autonomy. However, for various reasons, including the pro-Iranian sympathies of some Kurds during the
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was at loggerheads with the leader of ethnic Kurds, who brandished the threat of secession in a growing row over the symbolic issue of flying the Iraqi national flag at government buildings in the autonomous
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There is a Turkish – or rather Azerbaijanian-speaking part of the population of northern Iraq which is sometimes called "Turkmen", similar to the Yuruk tribes in the Balkans and in Anatolia.
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and adhere to that heritage and identity, this is because most Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman are the descendants of the Ottoman soldiers, traders and civil servants who were brought into Iraq from
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in Baghdad continued to function, which was also restored by Saddam. Remaining Jewish sites, some of them also revered by Muslims and Christians were protected by the Ba'ath regime.
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rebelled against Qassem's policies, he allowed Barzānī to return from exile to help suppress the pro-Nasser rebels. By 1961, Barzānī and the Kurds began a full-scale rebellion.
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Iraq was home to one of the oldest Jewish communities of the Middle East. During the Ottoman period, the Jews were part of society in Iraq. Iraq's first finance minister was
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Christianity has a presence in Iraq dating to the 1st century AD. The Christian community in Iraq is relatively small, and further dwindled due to the
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Revolution", deporting over 700 000 Feylis to Iran. However, since 2003 many Feyli kurds have returned to Iraq and been granted Iraqi citizenship.
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and there is archaeological evidence that attests to the Mandaean presence in pre-Islamic Iraq. The Mandaeans were originally native speakers of
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Today, there are around 650,000 Ezidis in Iraq who live in northern parts of Iraq. All speak Kurdish with the exception of the two villages
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and Kurds, the second great threat to Iraq's survival as a state after the growing sectarian conflict between Arab Sunnis and Shi'ites.
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may have also led to the standardisation of Turkmeni towards Turkish, and the preferable language for adolescents associating with the
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during the 1600 and 1700 hundreds. Their population is estimated to be around 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 in Iraq which is about 30% of the
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attempts at Assyrian cities are in progress. This was after the Kurdish takeover of Assyrian towns in the Kurdistan region (such as
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October 2006: Orthodox priest, Boulos Iskander, kidnapped in Mosul and subsequently beheaded, and his arms and legs were cut off.
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gained large protection from the Ba'ath Party against persecution with the Ba'athist regime helping pay for the construction of
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which has exerted a profound historical influence on their dialect. In addition, the Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman grammar
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The predominantly Muslim Turkmen are an ethnic group with close cultural and linguistic ties to Anatolia in Turkey.
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The Turkic-speaking Turkomans/Turkmen are the third-largest ethnic group in Iraq after the Arabs and the Kurds.
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Bulut, Christiane (2000), "Optative constructions in Iraqi Turkmen", in Göksel, Aslı; Kerslake, Celia (eds.),
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in 1967, 1977, 1987 and 1997, are all considered highly problematic, due to suspicions of regime manipulation.
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Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities
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The 1957 Iraqi census — the last in which the Turkmens were permitted to register — counted 567,000 Turkmens
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August 10, 2009: Truck bombs kill at least 28 people in the Shabak village of Khazna, in Nineveh governorate
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are the third largest ethnic group in the country, after the Arabs and Kurds. They are a branch of the
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in northern Iraq, which was never recognized by the Iraqi government until 2005. During the same year,
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population (about 60%-70%) but there is also a significant number of Turkmen/Turkoman practicing the
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June 4, 2007: 2 churches attacked, Ragheed Ganni, a priest, and three men were shot dead in church.
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regime, Afro-Iraqis have once again begun to struggle for an improvement in their condition.
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January 6, 2008: 7 Assyrian churches bombed: three churches in Mosul and four in Baghdad.
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The vast majority of Iraqi Kurds are Sunni Muslims, with Shia and Christian minorities.
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Turkmen/Turkoman minority mainly reside in northern and central Iraq, in the so-called
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Basile Georges Casmoussa, Catholic Archbishop, Taken Hostage In Iraq: Diggers Realm
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June 20, 2009: Truck bomb kills at least 70 people in a Turkmen village near Kirkuk
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as the formal written language and by 2005 the community leaders decided that the
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in 1624; thereafter, in 1640, the Turkish varieties continued to be influenced by
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The Kaka'is are a small Kurdish religious group who located mainly in and around
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are the indigenous people of Iraq and the descendants of those who ruled ancient
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in 1945. After the failure of the uprising Barzānī and his followers fled to the
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epithet historically claimed by several religious groups) and (in Arabic) as
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supervision of the government and Saddam paid the amount for relocation. The
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civil war broke out. From March 29, 1987 until April 23, 1989, the infamous
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the Turkmen are Iraq's third-largest ethnic group after the Arabs and Kurds
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to just several thousands. Most Christians in Iraq belong traditionally to
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Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq's minority communities since 2003
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The Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman share close cultural and linguistic ties with
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The Feylis are a ethnographic group of Shia Muslim Kurds who follows the
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branch of Islam (about 30% to 40%). Nonetheless, the Turkmen are mainly
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version of "Turkmeneli" – appears on a map of the region published by
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in the 1980s, the regime implemented anti-Kurdish policies and a
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have argued that the Shabak People were of Kurdish origins. The
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Currently run the security in many Towns and Villages in the
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Still Targeted: Continued Persecution of Iraq's Minorities
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fear no one." The dispute exposes a widening rift between
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against the Kurds, which resulted in thousands of deaths.
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Bilingual sign (Arabic and Turkish) of a Turkmen village.
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Approximate map of the Kurdish-populated region of Iraq
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Currently, Assyrians face persecution from Kurds, as
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Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds: Conflict or Cooperation?
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