Turkmens in Kerkuk demonstrated on Saturday to reject the American proposal to deploy joint U.S. and peshmerga forces in the so-called ‘disputed areas’.
The demonstrators called for the formation of an armed force to protect the Turkmen region.
Iraqi Turkmens are the descendants of the Oghuz Turks who originally came from Central Asia. They started to settle in Iraq (Mesopotamia) in 835 where they established 8 different Turkish states and empires which ruled the region for nine centuries (from 1055 to 1918)
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