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Iraq: The Legistive Election Campaign in Turkmeneli
3 Questions to Dr. Hassan Aydinli, ITF EU Representative
By Gilles Munier
1) How many Turkmen parties will be represented at the upcoming legislative elections, in which coalitions?
There are two categories of parties:
- Those created by the Turkmens themselves which really defend the Turkmen cause.
- Those formed and financed by the Kurds (Barzani and Talabani). These are Turkmen in name only and they are serving Kurdish interests. Read the rest of this entry »
Davutoğlu, Iraqi Shiite leader discuss cooperation
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Ammar Abdulaziz al-Hakim, leader of Iraq’s Islamic Supreme Council, discussed the upcoming elections in Iraq and future cooperation regarding the Kurdish issue on Wednesday in Istanbul.
Davutoğlu signified that the elections were could be a “turning point” in the two countries’ relations.During the meeting, Davutoğlu said Turkey wanted a peaceful and prosperous Iraq, reported Anatolia news agency.
Al- Hakim stressed the importance of preserving the rights of all Iraqis, including those of the Turkmen people in Kirkuk. He welcomed Turkey’s support of Iraq’s democratization process and cooperation on water policy. Read the rest of this entry »
Iraqi Turkmen groups agree on joint action
Representatives of more than 20 Iraqi Turkmen groups who gathered in Ankara last week released a joint declaration on Sunday announcing that they have decided to maintain a joint strategy in order to better protect the interests of Iraqi Turkmens in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iraq, scheduled to take place in January.
Iraqi Turkmen representatives had gathered in the Turkish capital upon an invitation by Bilkent University Rector Ali Doğramacı, whose family’s origin is Iraqi Turkmen. President Abdullah Gül last week hosted the representatives at an iftar (fast-breaking dinner) at the presidential palace. Read the rest of this entry »
ITF to open new offices in Turkey
In an effort to guarantee an electoral victory in January, Iraqi Turkmen are working on a database of Turkmen populations worldwide to boost their numbers in parliament. The Iraqi Turkmen Front is planning to open offices in various Turkish cities in line with this campaign
In an effort to boost support for Turkmen deputies in Iraq’s Jan. 16 general elections, Iraqi Turkmen leaders have decided to join forces to find and mobilize Turkmen populations worldwide.
A summit to unite Iraqi Turkmen and discuss ways to boost their numbers in parliament took place last week in Ankara. Iraqi Turkmen Front, or ITF, Chairman Sadettin Ergeç, Iraqi Turkmen Assembly President Yunus Bayraktar, Iraqi Turkmen Islamic Union Secretary-General Abbas Betyati, Iraqi Turkmen Justice Party Chairman Enver Bayraktar and other Turkmen deputies serving in the Iraqi parliament, along with chairs of Turkmen associations in Turkey, constituted the summit’s 23 participants. Read the rest of this entry »
Martyr Week of Iraqi-Turkmen
Fiftieth Anniversary of the 1959 Kirkuk Massacre
14 July 2009, this day marks the 50th year anniversary of the largest massacre of Iraqi-Turkmen in Kirkuk, Iraq to date.
Every year on July 14th, this massacre and the Turkmen martyrs are remembered with respect and gratitude.
No other people in history have suffered massacres in almost every one of their cities. Likewise, there is no other nation in history which on a year by year count has seen such systematic massacres. No other nation has ever been exposed to this kind of genocide and forced assimilation. The only “crime” of the Turkmen people, remnants of the Ottoman Empire, living in a geography that is the extension of Turkey, is to be of Turkish origin. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkey wary over status of Kirkuk
Middle East Times
Turkey cautioned against moving too quickly on a referendum to settle the disputed status of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, officials said.
Abbas al-Bayati, a Shiite Turkomen with the United Iraqi Alliance coalition, said Turkish President Abdullah Gul invited members from the ethnic community in Kirkuk to meet in Ankara to discuss the way forward on the disputed city, Turkey’s daily newspaper Hurriyet reported Monday.
Iraq holds provincial elections in 14 of the 18 provinces Jan. 31. The vote is delayed in the three Kurdish provinces and Kirkuk because of territorial disputes.
Ethnic Kurds, Sunnis and Turkomen disagree over whether Kirkuk should be considered part of greater Iraq or Iraqi Kurdistan. The vote in Kirkuk is postponed indefinitely. Read the rest of this entry »
Arbitrary Detention of Iraqi Turkmen by Kurdish Islamic Terrorists
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, American Chronicle
The extent of the Islamic terror performed by the pseudo-Kurdish militias that are not controlled - as many erroneously believe - by either Talabani or Barzani is obvious in the extremely preoccupying case reported by the Dr. Sheth Jerjis, Chairman SOITM, the Netherlands-based Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Research Foundation. It consists in a provocative case of arbitrary detention of an Iraqi Turkmen by the crypto-terrorist militias that will be playing for a while their theatrical parody of “Kurdish” forces. Then, the game will change….
I republish it from their website as a document testifying to the need for a dramatic U-turn that has to take place in Iraq before the ´Kurdish´ mask of Al Qaeda falls and dozens of millions of innocent people throughout the Middle East are sacrificed in the next Holocaust. Read the rest of this entry »
The Islamic Republic Has Become The Biggest Enemy of The Turkish Language
The Islamic Republic has recently increased its efforts towards eradicating the Turkish language within the geographical borders called Iran.
The regime that prevails in Iran has turned towards exterminating the precious Turkish works of art in this country by joining forces with the Persian chauvinists.
The Turks have settled in this geography which is called Iran for thousands of years and during the time of the Great Seljuk Empire. Many historical masterpieces in Iran are the heritage of the Turks of that time.
The Islamic Republic is nowadays trying to eradicate the Turkish language in the Iranian geography, half of its population is composed of the Turks, namely the Azerbaijani Turks, the Turkmens and the Kashghais etc. Read the rest of this entry »
Kerkuk - Capital City of Turkmeneli (Iraqi Turkmenia) and the Pseudo-Kurdish Claims
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, American Chronicle
A comprehensive diagram of the History of the Turkmen city of Kerkuk is presented in the new book about the Iraqi city, which has been elaborated by Mofak Salman Kerkuklu, one of Iraq´s foremost Turkmen scholars and intellectuals. I will publish the book in a series of articles; in this first part, I republish the various historical chapters of Mr. Mofak Salman Kerkuklu´s new contribution. In forthcoming articles, I will publish parts of the book that shed light on the recent atrocities committed there by the terrorist militias of the pseudo-Kurdish “leaders´ Talabani and Barzani. Read the rest of this entry »
Negotiating Nationhood on the Net: The Case of the Turkmens and Assyrians of Iraq
Hala Fattah, Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies, Amman.
A central argument that has swirled around the contours of the Iraqi nation from its inception in the 1920s has migrated to the Internet. The argument pits the legitimacy of Iraq as a nation-state against that of a whole host of different “national” communities settled within the modern state. The claim has been made that Iraq has never cohered into a nation because successive governments have prevented the assimilation and integration of “the multiple histories of Iraqis” into “a single narrative of state power”.1 The argument is more a Western construct than an indigenous formulation. State-centered ideology is not monolithic and has its ebbs and flows: in certain periods (such as under the monarchy), Iraqis did indeed forge solid ties of marriage, commercial partnerships, and social relationships across ethnic and sectarian lines.2 Moreover, Iraqi nationalism appeals to certain groups more than others. Various observers have noted that, over the last eighty years, some of the Kurds and some of the Shi’a have been somewhat more ambivalent about their Iraqi identity than others in the country. Recently, different ways in which social groups both inside and outside of Iraq are currently reformulating their ties to Iraq and notions of “Iraq” have appeared on the Internet at the same time that the country passes through one of the severest tests in its history. Read the rest of this entry »