Get the facts right New York Times!
TUZ KHURMATU is not 'in the Kurdish north'!
TUZ KHURMATU is an Iraqi Turkmen city, it is situated in TURKMENELI, which is the Turkmen region of Iraq.
The Turkmen region extends from TELAFER city in the north-west of Iraq (West of Mosul and close to the Syrian border) to MENDELI city (East of Baghdad close to the Iranian border).
Turkmeneli which means "Turkmens' land" is the region of Iraq which separates the Arab region from the Kurdish region.
TUZ KHURMATU is a Turkmen name.
The original inhabitants of TUZ KHURMATU are Turkmens.
All the victims in this latest attack are Turkmens.
TUZ KHURMATU was NOT included in the 'safe haven' that the U.S. created in 1991 to protect the Kurds. So how come that in 2013 you are considering it as belonging to the "Kurdish north"?
The Turkmen region extends from TELAFER city in the north-west of Iraq (West of Mosul and close to the Syrian border) to MENDELI city (East of Baghdad close to the Iranian border).
Turkmeneli which means "Turkmens' land" is the region of Iraq which separates the Arab region from the Kurdish region.
TUZ KHURMATU is a Turkmen name.
The original inhabitants of TUZ KHURMATU are Turkmens.
All the victims in this latest attack are Turkmens.
TUZ KHURMATU was NOT included in the 'safe haven' that the U.S. created in 1991 to protect the Kurds. So how come that in 2013 you are considering it as belonging to the "Kurdish north"?
Mass Killing of TURKMENS in TUZ KHURMATU
Bombing at a Funeral in Northern Iraq Kills at Least 35
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/world/middleeast/funeral-bombing-in-northern-iraq-kills-at-least-35-mourners.html?_r=0
Ako Rasheed/Reuters
By DURAID ADNAN
Published: January 23, 2013
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A crowded tent full of Turkmen
mourners in northern Iraq was transformed into a mass killing ground on
Wednesday by a suicide bombing that left at least 35 people dead and 117
wounded, regional officials and tribal leaders said, calling it a genocidal
attack meant to further stoke the already-inflamed sectarian tensions in the
country.
Both the dead and wounded victims included a number of high-ranking regional dignitaries, military officers, professors and religious men among the Turkmen population of the Tuz Khurmato district in Salahuddin Province, an area in the Kurdish north also claimed by Arabs and Turkmens. It came a day after an extended outbreak of sectarian shootings and bombings in the country that killed at least 24 Iraqis.
Mourners at the Imam Ali mosque had been paying their
respects to a Turkmen employee of the Ministry of Health who had been killed in
the mayhem the day before, the brother-in-law of a deputy in the Iraqi Turkmen
Front, a political party. They had packed into a funeral tent for the ceremony
when the suicide bomber, apparently masquerading as one of the aggrieved, blew
himself up.
Turkmen leaders were outraged.
“We demand to have international forces to secure us,
for the Turkmens and our areas,” said Faid Alla, the head of a Turkmen tribe.
“We are being targeted, and our existence in Iraq is very dangerous, and we are
under genocide. The central government is doing nothing for us.”
Tuz Khurmato, south of Kirkuk in an oil-rich area, was
the site two months ago of a sectarian-tinged confrontation over disputed
territory between forces loyal to the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the
Kurdish regional government, which has its own armed forces.
Mr. Maliki, who took power during the American-led
military occupation of Iraq, has denied the accusations and rejected demands by
rivals that he resign.
The instability has been a growing source of concern
for the United States, which withdrew its military forces from Iraq about a year
ago.
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