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Iraqi Parliamentarians Representing Various Minority Communities Attend Meeting at EU Parliament
On 5 October 2011, Fourteen Iraqi Parliamentarians representing the Chaldeo-Assyrian, Shabak, Yezidi and Mandaean-Sabean communities attended a meeting with the EU Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq.
The Iraqi delegation was composed of: Mr Younadam Kenna, Mr Amin Farhan, MissAmeena Said, Miss Vian Dakhil, Mr Hussain Nermo, Mr Meham Khaleel, MissBasma Pitrus, Mr Luis Gaor, Mr Qasim Birgis, Mr Sharif Sulayman, Mr Khalid Roomi, Mr Kaliss Eisho, Mr Imad Yako, and Mr Mohammed Jamsheed. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkmen form special security force in Kirkuk
The Turkmen community in Kirkuk will form a special security force to protect the Turkmen citizens of the disputed city.
Najat Hassan, representative of the Turkmen in Kirkuk, announced the new unit with 100-150 armed men Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkmen Policy on the Rise in Iraq
Until the elections in 2010 the Turkmens who have not been effective in the Iraq policy and who were put out of action in the process of restructuring of Iraq began to take important steps. Particularly, in pursuit of the formation of new government, an observable increase is being talked about in Turkmen policy. After the general elections on 7 March 2011 in Iraq, the Turkmens who gained 10 deputies and 3 ministries seem to be risen from the ashes. The Turkmens who were maybe most influenced by the political polarization and the corruption within the state, managed to make their voice heard especially with the last moves by the Iraqi Turkmen Front. The Turkmens started to take part in Iraq policy, under the leadership of Arshad al-Salihi who became and eminent figure in the Turkmen politics as of the day when he returned to Iraq from Syria. Salihi was at first as the head of Kirkuk province of Turkmen Front and he was elected the head of Iraqi Turkmen Front in May,. The Iraqi Turkmen Front has been undergoing a reorganization, which is evident in both management structure and policy strategy. Read the rest of this entry »
Higher Strategic Policies Council should go to Turkmen – White Iraqiya
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The head of White Iraqiya bloc, Qutaiba al-Jubouri, suggested today that the post of Higher Strategic Policies Council go to the Turkmen because they did not get a real post in the present government.
Jubouri made a statement today, a copy of which was received by Aswat al-Iraq, stating that “granting this post to the Turkmen is important because they are the third ethnic entity in the country.
Their popular participation and history should enable them a real representation.” Read the rest of this entry »
Kurd-Turkmen talks top Turk PM Iraq agenda
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to visit Iraq and attempt to broker talks between ethnic Turkmen and Kurds over their rival claims to the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a Turkmen politician said on Sunday.
“Turkey is pressuring us to narrow our differences with the Kurds” over Kirkuk, said Saadeddin Arkij, head of Iraq’s Turkmen Front, the largest political party representing the country’s Turkmen minority. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkish FM meets Iraq’s Turkmen leaders
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday met with leaders of Iraq’s Turkmen population from Tal Afar who launched a peace initiative to end a long-standing feud between the city’s Shiite and Sunni Turkmen groups.
“The entire Iraq is precious to us. The fate of the Iraqis is the fate of Turkey. We will not let any Iraqi citizen down. The people of Tal Afar should live without knowing who is Shiite and who is Sunni,” Davutoglu said.
The Turkish foreign minister said Turkey would use all resources to open a university in Tal Afar, adding that Turkey’s development agency would also exert efforts to construct new houses for those Turkmen returning to Tal Afar. Read the rest of this entry »
Iraqi Turkmen Solidarity Meeting in Ankara
“ITF Turkey Representative, the distinguished Dr. Hicran Kazancı brings the Turkmen personalities living in Turkey under a single roof titled “Turkmen Solidarity Meeting”, shares the projects under the management of his representation, as well as new strategies and claims to be open to any and all forms of criticism. ”
ITF Turkey Representative, the distinguished Dr. Hicran Kazancı brings the Turkmen personalities living in Turkey under a single roof titled “Turkmen Solidarity Meeting”, shares the projects under the management of his representation, as well as new strategies and claims to be open to any and all forms of criticism. Within the scope of this framework, Dr. Kazancı is holds the fourth in a series of Turkmen Solidarity Meetings in the Representation building on 28.01.2010. Read the rest of this entry »
The Turkic character of KASHGAR city in East Turkistan and of KERKUK city in Turkmeneli (Iraq) must be preserved!
ITF EU representative Dr. Hassan Aydinli spoke to the organiser of the conference, MEP Frieda Brepoels, about the city of KERKUK , the Turkmens’ cultural capital in Iraq , saying that KERKUK, as KASHGAR, deserved to receive the attention of international organisations such as UNESCO, the Society for Threatened Peoples, etc. He informed her that under the arabization policy of the former regime several important Turkmen monuments and traditional Turkish houses in Kerkuk had been destroyed and that since April 2003 when the U.S. military allowed the Kurdish Peshmerga to invade and occupy the city the Kurds too were trying to obliterate the city’s Turkmen character .
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Iraqi Turkmen Front EU Representative attended the Delegation for relations with Iraq Meeting at the European Parliament
ITF EU Representative Dr. Hassan Aydinli attended the 27 January 2011 Delegation for relations with Iraq Meeting at the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT in Brussels.
MEP Struan STEVENSON, Chair of D-IQ started the meeting by saying that Dr. Jafar Hassan, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, who had been invited to this meeting – to share his views on the relations between Iraq and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as well as on a larger perspective involving ongoing issues in the Middle East – was unable to attend as his flight had been cancelled because of the bad weather conditions in the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
Davutoglu urges Iraq’s Turkmen lawmakers to act in unison
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu got together with Iraq’s Turkmen lawmakers at an exclusive fast breaking dinner in Ankara on Saturday, where recent political developments in Iraq were discussed.
Davutoglu urged Turkmen lawmakers in the Iraqi National Parliament to let aside partisan differences and act in unison in issues concerning the Turkmen population of Iraq, calling on them to form a Turkmen group in the parliament. Davutoglu emphasized that Turkey attached importance to unity among ethnic groups in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »