Arshad al-Salihi appreciates Talabani’s support for Turkmen issues

Salihi appreciates Talabani’s support for Turkmen issues

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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) -The head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Arshad al-Salihi, expressed his “gratitude for the President, Jalal Talabani, for his support for the law of the Turkmen rights and demands.” 

In a message to Talabani, he said “I am pleased to express my gratitude for your support for the law that ensures the rights and the demands of the Turkmen in Iraq during the parliament session of 28^th of last July,” noting that “your support will preserve the brotherly relations among the Iraqi communities.”

Earlier, the parliament voted during its session of July, 28^th on the report concerning the situation and the demands of the Turkmen community in Iraq.

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Iraqi Turkmen demand post of parliament speaker

Iraqi Turkmen demand post of parliament speaker


 23 April 2012 / TODAY'S ZAMAN, ANKARA

Turkmen have demanded the speaker of the federal parliament in Iraq be a Turkmen.

Abbas Beyatlı, a deputy in Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition, said a Turkmen must be given the post of speaker in the federal parliament to correct the imbalance in the distribution of political posts among the various ethnic groups in Iraq.



Turkmen deputies, who brought up Turkmen issues in a parliamentary session on Saturday, announced at a press conference that it was a day of historical importance for Iraqi Turkmen, with problems faced by Turkmen having been dealt with in the Iraqi parliament for the first time. At the session a report was heard on the persecution Turkmen have suffered in the past, the forced assimilation they were subject to, the extrajudicial executions of Turkmen and confiscation of their goods.



Noting that the Turkmen felt on this historic day that they were an essential part of Iraq, Beyatlı announced Turkmen had two major demands that they would never give up. The first is the post of the parliament speaker. “There are no Turkmen in 11 posts of strategic importance. In order for a balance to be achieved, we demand that the speaker of the federal parliament be a Turkmen,” Beyatlı said.






The second demand regards confiscated Turkmen land. The Turkmen seek return of the land the Iraqi state seized by force in 1976 in the Bashir and Tisin regions. The leader of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Arshad Salihi, said they brought the Turkmen issue before parliament as they have no hope the National Conference, a government meeting scheduled for the end of the month, will end the political crisis in the country. A committee was formed in parliament to look into the Turkmen's problems and make recommendations.

Turkmen Call For New Provinces

Iraq Attacks Kill Four As Turkmen Call For New Provinces

Monday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 10 Wounded

by Margaret Griffis, November 14, 2011

 Antiwar Forum

Iraq’s Turkmen are now wading in to the growing "regions" fray, calling on the central government to create two new provinces in northern Iraq and give them regional status. The districts in question are Tuz Khormato in Salah ad Din province and Tal Afar in Ninewa. A Turkmen representative in the National Alliance, Fawzi, Akram Tarzi, said those areas had suffered from injustice and lack of services in the past. He is also confident that giving the multi-ethnic districts a new status would not undermine national unity. Parliament Speaker Usama Nujaifi supported Tarzi’s statement by separately adding that the constitution permits such regions.

Recently, Salah ad Din province, where Tuz Khormato is located, started its own bid to reclassify itself as an autonomous region, much in the style of Iraqi Kurdistan. The bid is in response to the arrests of Sunni Arabs under the guise of a Ba’ath Party crackdown. They were followed by Diyala province. Basra and other southern provinces have long been pursuing similar paths as well.