Final Results of the Iraqi Provincial Elections 2013

Final Results of the Iraqi Provincial Elections 2013

Posted by Reidar Visser on Saturday, 4 May 2013 18:05

The Iraqi elections commission IHEC today released the final results of the provincial elections on 20 April. The seat distribution, presented below with figures from 2009 in parentheses, largely confirms the picture that emerged from initial results.

Among the Shiite Islamist parties, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has lost some seats in some governorates but is still the biggest seat winner, with particularly strong positions in the governorate councils of Baghdad and Basra. Despite internal splits, ISCI has done a moderate comeback in several governorates. The Sadrists won back Maysan but otherwise are not making big advances; in Najaf, a local list is the biggest winner, exactly as in 2009.  It is noteworthy that the Shiite parties that ran together in Diyala managed to emerge as the biggest winner with 12 seats; this will certainly be seen by some as an indication of increased sectarian polarization.

With respect to parties associated with Sunni-majority areas, it is noteworthy that the Mutahiddun list headed by the Nujayfi brothers has emerged as the most formidable force nationwide, with more votes than competitors like Salah al-Mutlak and including a very respectable result in Baghdad. In Salahaddin, a local Sunni list emerged as the biggest winner, whereas in Diyala forces associated with Nujayfi and Mutlak joined together, though without beating the pan-Shiite list.

The traditional secular parties have fared poorly. Especially noteworthy is the decline of the Iraqiyya list of Ayyad Allawi, which has now only 2 seats south of Baghdad (Basra and Babel), and which was eclipsed by parties with more pronounced Sunni profiles north of Basra. Similarly, none of the breakaway parties from the Iraqiyya coalition such as Free Iraqiyya or White has achieved particularly good results. Similar to the various alliances associated with the Iraqi communist movement, these parties are reduced to isolated seats in a small number of governorates.

It seems worth mentioning that the Kurds lost a few seats in the two governorates where they competed (Salahaddin and Diyala).

The process of forming coalitions and new local governments now begins. In 2009, this lasted 3 months in total. However, in some governorates negotiations are already underway, with parties in Basra even holding press conferences for the announcement of coalitions and job distributions before the official result was ready! In Shiite-majority provinces, a key question is whether Maliki will this time turn to ISCI rather than to Sadrists as his main partner; in Diyala, there is the possibility that the pan-Shiite list may try to circumvent the biggest Sunni parties to build alliances with the Kurds and smaller Sunni parties. Whichever strategies are chosen, the effects on Iraqi political dynamics are likely to be huge – at the heated national scene as well as in places where the local elections were postponed (Anbar and Nineveh).

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Census of Population and Land in Kirkuk subdivision at the time of Sultan Suleiman The Magnificent

How the Turkmens were dispossessed of their Properties and Lands in the north of Iraq


A personal example:

The lands of my husband's family (mother's side) in LEYLEN(number 32 in the table below) are occupied by Kurds since 2003 and the properties and lands of his family (father's side) in BESHIR (number 22 in the table below), for which they hold the deeds dating from Ottoman time, have been confiscated and are occupied by Arabs since 1986.

The Records of Census of Population and Land in Kirkuk subdivision at the time of Sultan Suleiman The Magnificent (*) clearly demonstrate that the region was overwhelmingly inhabited by Turkmens.

Below are notes by Prof. Dr M. Akif ERDOGRU who made some research in the Ottoman Archives:


Prof. Dr. M. Akif Erdogru of
Aegean University, History Section of Faculty of Letters, 
Historical Studies Periodical
Volume xıx, Number 2
December 2004, pp 186-189

A NOTE ON THE POPULATION DISTRIBUTION OF KIRKUK SUBDIVISION

Since the U.S.occupation of Iraq in 2003, a lot of theses and publications were made regarding Kirkuk being a 'Kurdish city' both in domestic and foreign press. It is clear however that these claims are conflicting with the reality.


A census of population and of land in the Kirkuk subdivision, which concerned the cities of Dakuk and Kirkuk, was published by the General Directorate of State Archives under the name of “Detailed Writing Book of Kirkuk Subdivision numbered as 111 (Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent time), the General Directorate of State Archives, Ankara 2003”.
This precious source was preserved in the archives of the General Directorate of Title-deeds at the Cadastre of Turkey, it was the only detailed census of population and land made for Kirkuk and Dakuk. The General Directorate of State Archives did a very appropriate and useful study by submitting this census to the scientific world. At least interested parties at that time were reminded of the Turkish and Muslim cities of Kirkuk and Dakuk together with their environments.


As it was known, these regions have a special importance for Turks and Muslim people, because places of worship, dervish lodges and tombs of numerous Turkish and Muslim leaders are found in this area. There were small dervish lodges in the area such as Imam Ismael, Imam Mohammad Seydhi Hattali, Imam Zeynelabidin, Salbartu, and Sheikh Mekkhi who was the standard bearer of Prophet Mohammad, Nure, Father Zhunun, Sheikh Majidee Kurevi, and many descendants from Prophet Mohammad's family.

Not only were these regions sacred for Anatolian Muslims but also for Muslims and Turks living in Iran. There were many historical associations to Shah Ismael in the region. It should also be noted that this region continuously changed owners during the skirmishes between Ottomans and Iranians but that no radical changes occurred in the ethnic and religious components.

The population of Kirkuk and Dakuk and their surrounding villages were mainly constituted from Muslim Turks, the names recorded in the census indicate that these were the Shiite Turcoman people who had relationship with Iran and Eastern Anatolia.

Arabs and Kurds were rarely mentioned in this census and their numerical proportion was under 1%. Non-Muslim people (Christians and Jews) also lived in some places in this region. In those years, in Kirkuk city centre there were 183 houses of Muslim-Turks, 104 houses of Jews and 53 houses of Christians.There was no mention of Kurds and Arabs.

In Tercil village 43 Jewish houses were mentioned.

There were 35 Christian families in Dakuk's Kilise village, while in the centre of Dakuk their number was only 18.

In those days both Kirkuk and Dakuk, with the said figures, appeared as proper Muslim Turkish cities and the presence of some Christians, Jews, Arabs and Kurds had no effect on the two cities and on their surrounding villages.

The overwhelming majority of the people using the hamlets and high plateaus around the cities were Shiite Turcoman people.

The said census, likewise, gives information about these semi-nomads: Turkish tribe Lek, Mongol-Turkish tribe Sulduz, Turkish tribe Doger, Turkish tribe Karaca Bayad, Azerbaijan-Turkish tribe Gilevan, Turkish tribe Black Mansur, Azerbaijan-Turkish tribe Zengene and many subdivisions of it which were settled in the area, and Central Asian Turkish tribe Nilkaz were among these big groups. Especially the Kalender Beg, Kulu Kethuda and Kethuda Shah Ali congregations connected to Zengene heavily used Kirkuk and Dakuk regions in the 1560s.

Besides these, there were also semi-nomadic Turkish tribes with their cattle grazing in Iran and Anatolia but registered in this region. There was no mention of Kurdish tribes among them.
I should point out that a few Kurdish families were registered in the Kirkuk-Jewish congregation. The religious structure of the region is shown in the table below.

The entire Muslim population was constituted from Turcoman people. 

TABLE: Population of Kirkuk Subdivision in 1560
(Source: Detailed Writing Book of Kirkuk Subdivision, Ankara 2003)

Dakuk Region

Muslim houses - Christian houses - Jewish houses

1. Dakuk center 259 18 -

2. Mutık village 34 - -

3. Dumanli village 158 - -

4. Bozdepe village 11 - -

5. Kushtan village 100 - -

6. Iftihar village 51 - -

7. Sheik Kendi village 38 - -

8. Lasun village 1 - -

9. Ashagi Arab Kendi village 34 - -

10.Yukari Arab Kendi village 39 - -

11. Ali Sarayi village 82 - -

12. Cedie-i Babilan village 54 - -

13. Tuz Hurmati village 229 - -

14. Babilan village 119 - -

15. Bassaa village 5 - -

16. Chisghan village 32 - -

17. Cedide village 16 - -

Kirkuk Region
Muslim houses - Christian houses - Jewish houses

18. Kirkuk center 183 53 104

19. Cherbeklu village 30 - -

20. Meraga village 57 - -

21. Ramadanniye village 33 - -

22. Beshir village 89 - -

23. Cemaliyye village 52 - -

24. Hurmati-yi Tezek village 104 - -

25. Shemsiyye village 56 - -

26. Tis’in village 93 - -

27. Uch Kubbe village 24 - -

28. Pulava village 71 - -

29. Hajji Pusek village 30 - -

30. Tercil village 242 - 43

31. Karalar village 18 - -

32. Leylen village 218 - -

33. Yahya Abad village 67 - -

34. Dephelu village 127 - -

35. Furkan village 60 - -

36.Bari Abad village 45 - -

37. Yarimca village 26 - -

38. Gokdan village 101 - -

39. Telkeshkhan village 77 - -

40. Duhala village 23 - -

41. Kara Hasan village 34 - -

42. Helmin village 100 - -

43. Kuriyye village 1 70 -

44. Kushchu village 11 - -

Nilkhaz Region

Muslim houses - Christian houses - Jewish houses

45. Agcalar village 73 - -

46. Chur-I Dizek village 64 - -

47. Metfak village 56 - -

48. Suslu village 25 - -

49. Keritan village 12 - -

50. Mahmad village 59 - -

51. Gokdepe village 65 - -

52. Chuchurd-I Kuchuk village 59 - -

53. Tulekdan village 46 - -

54. Shud Komu village 122 - -

55. Babik village 68 - -

56. Gulluce village 59 - -

57. Kazan Otagi village 34 - -

58. Kadi Kendi village 60 - -

59.Gurculer village 11 - -

60. Melik Kendi village 62 - -

61. Kurd Deligi village 26 - -

62. Kellebash village 23 - -

63. Abdal village 53 - -

64. Kalender village 38 - -

65. Omar Kamu village 8 - -

66. Sivritash village 9 - -

67. Gechine village 28 - -

68. Kapchikay village 61 - -

69. Evcush village 329 - -

70. Baura village 60 - -

Taxes of a few villages were assigned to Mecca foundation. On the economical side, Kirkuk and Dakuk were the income resources for Ottoman treasure. Water mills, people dealing with the water works, onion fields, cattle, grain, vineyards, vegetables, houses and some crafts in Dakuk were under tax. Ispenche tax was applied to Jews and Christians. Military importance of Kirkuk citadel was low. Houses, cloth weavers, tailors, cattle, grain, vineyards, mills, transit commercial trade were subject to taxes under various names. Tax rates were extremely heavy i.e. in the proportions of 1/7 and 1/8 according to some places of Anatolia. The two most important tax sources among them were onion fields and cotton seeds (cevzeka-i penbe).

The Directorate of Archives as well as the publishing of this study remind us that Kirkuk and Dakuk have been Turkish and Muslim regions for many centuries.


(*) Suleiman Kanuni (The Lawgiver) known as "Suleiman The Magnificent" in the West

was born in 1494 and died in 1566.

IRAQ: election results so far: low voter turnout, more compromises needed

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niqash | Daoud al-Ali | Baghdad | 25.04.2013

A campaign poster emphasising tribal affiliations.

Early results of provincial elections are in. Results so far indicate that civil society groups won more seats as did Islamists and that the PM is going to need to do a lot more negotiating. And that Iraqi voters hardly care.

The early results of Iraq’s provincial elections are in. preliminary results were distributed to various political parties’ offices on April 22 by Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission or IHEC, the body responsible for conducting the elections.

Preliminary results indicate that various, independent Iraqi lists won about 70 seats out of a total of the 378 that were available in 12 Iraqi provinces that voted. The Sadrist movement won 50 seats, the State of Law, which is headed by current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki won 115 seats and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq won 80 seats.

The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, currently led by young cleric Ammar al-Hakim, did particularly well. In some provinces the party came second, only trailing al-Maliki’s ruling party, and in some cases only losing to al-Maliki by a slight margin. And it seems the ISCI’s win was at the expense of the Sadrist movement which didn’t do as well as one might have expected in a number of previously loyal provinces. All of those parties have a Shiite Muslim basis.

As for the main opposition bloc in parliament, the Iraqiya bloc which is led by the former Prime Minister Ayed Allawi and is mainly Sunni Muslim, it doesn’t seem to have done all that well as a group. Various individuals in the group – such as Osama al-Nujaifi, the speaker in federal parliament – did well but others – such as Saleh-al-Mutlaq, one of Iraq’s deputy Prime Ministers – did not.  

There was also another noteworthy election result: this involved parties with a secular, civil society or liberal background, winning more seats. These kinds of parties appear to have scored at least two or three seats in each provincial council. Whether that is due to Iraqi voters’ growing enthusiasm for this kind of politics though, is another question – many political analysts say it’s mainly due to the law on representation of smaller parties changing.  

So what does all this mean so far? More political compromise will be needed, say some experts.

Al-Maliki had hoped to test his strength in these provincial elections, local political analyst, Ihsan al-Shammari, a lecturer at Baghdad University, told NIQASH. “He wanted to see if he could form a government without any coalition partners. But these early results confirm that this won’t be easy. Al-Maliki has discovered that what he wanted to achieve is a difficult task.”

The country’s former vice president Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite Muslim politician, made some interesting announcements on his Facebook page in regard to this. He thought that al-Maliki would lose its top position in four states previously led the Iraqi Prime Minister’s party and that, despite some new political partnerships, this would mean the party would be forced into coalitions with other parties in almost every province.

Meanwhile Adnan al-Sarraj, who heads the Iraqi Media Development Centre, which was setup to encourage objective and accurate media in the country, isn’t quite sure about that. He believes that the true electoral mood of the country will only be seen in 2014, with the next legislative elections.  

“The political debate in the provinces has been limited to state services and investment in development projects," al-Sarraj said.  

“Because of the low voter turnout, it’s not possible to say that the provincial elections truly represent the mood of the electorate,” local analyst and writer Aziz Jaber argued. “So the winners in this election are not the real winners.”

What really counted in these elections was the negative attitude that most Iraqi voters had toward the elections, Jaber said. “People no longer care about what’s going on. They don’t believe that anything will really change.”

As part of its early announcement IHEC suggested that voter turnout was standing at around 50 percent. This is around the same levels as were seen in provincial elections in 2009. However various other organizations believed that it was even less than this.

The Tammuz Organization for Social Development, which was monitoring the elections, said that turnout was lower. “The figure we got from our observers around the country indicated that voter turnout was only at around 37 percent,” Ali al-Dujail, the organization’s secretary, noted.

The gap between IHEC’s figures and those provided by other organizations were certainly cause for controversy. But one thing was clear: whichever figures were correct, around half of all Iraqi voters didn’t bother to make a political choice. In the Salahaddin province, turnout was at about 61 percent but it was in Baghdad it wasn’t higher than 33 percent and according to some sources, as low as 20 percent in some neighbourhoods.

Additionally for the first time ever, polling stations were closed by 5pm. Their opening hours were not extended as they had been during other provincial elections. Officials were confident that everyone who wanted to, would have voted by then. Previously high voter turnout had meant that polling stations needed to stay open. Not this year.

http://www.niqash.org/articles/?id=3211

Mehmed the Conqueror-era documents published in book

150 documents belonging to the era of Mehmed the Conqueror, on which there are few documents in official archives, have been collected in a book.

World Bulletin/News Desk

Representations of 150 documents belonging of the era of Mehmed the Conqueror gathered from Turkey and other countries will be collected in a book and distributed for free to citizens.
Author Abul Faruk Onal expressed that 150 documents, including edicts, patents, provisions, statutes, deeds, book samples and annals, from the period of Mehmed the Conqueror have been found in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives, Topkapi Palace Library, Sabanci Museum, Venice Library and Dubrovnik Archives.
Indicating that the documents have been gathered in a book titled “Fatih Sultan Mehmet-era Ottoman Archive Documents,” Onal said that copies would be distributed free of charge at a program organized on May 1-3 in Istanbul, on the 532nd anniversary of his death.
Noting that Ottoman state archival sources began to be multiplied during the rule of Suleiman the Magnificent, Onal stated that there are few documentary examples of previous periods.

PKK terrorists leaving Turkey to receive training on politics in Kandil

25 April 2013 /HABİB GÜLER, ANKARA – Pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder has announced that Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists who withdraw from the country as part of the ongoing settlement process will not go back to their homes but will be offered political training in Kandil, where most of the PKK hideouts are located in northern Iraq.


PKK terrorists are expected to leave Turkey as part of the ongoing talks between state officials and imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan that aim to resolve the country’s long-standing Kurdish and terrorism problems.

“Nobody will return to their homes, everyone will go to Kandil and receive this training. An overall democratization campaign will be launched in the country,” said Önder in a statement made during the National Sovereignty and Children’s Day reception in Parliament on April 23.

At the same reception, Önder also said there will no longer be an exchange of letters between Öcalan and PKK operatives in Kandil, and that the communication will be carried out via the BDP from then on. In the meantime, another BDP deputy, Ertuğrul Kürkçü, said on Thursday that when the PKK lays down its weapons, it will become like the BDP. Speaking to a pro-Kurdish media outlet, Kürkçü elaborated on his earlier statements, saying: “Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sometimes does not know what is saying. He needs a psychologist.”

“I made those remarks because of this. You [the government] are holding talks or negotiations with the BDP. You say, ‘The BDP actually gets nourishment from terrorism…’ Now that you launched a project for the elimination of terrorism, you say you want to eliminate the BDP. Can such a thing happen? To the contrary, the BDP is the main actor: when the PKK lays down its weapons, the PKK will be the BDP — is there any other way to this?” he said.

“Put aside 300 PKK administrators, for there is no general amnesty for them. What will happen to the rest of the tens of thousands of people? They will be involved in politics. You [the government] do not grant them any domain to do politics. You are trying to eliminate the BDP, which is involved in politics,” Kürkçü said in further remarks, addressing the government.

He complained that there is still a pro-security understanding in Turkey instead of a pro-democratic and pro-freedom one, adding that even this does not overshadow the settlement process.

With regards to lack of support from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) for the settlement process, he said the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government has not given any opportunity to the CHP to be involved in the process, and, to the contrary, it belittled its importance. “I don’t think the AK Party makes things easier,” he said. – The CHP supported the settlement process at the outset but has since withdrawn its support, accusing the government of failing to be transparent.

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-313710-pkk-militants-leaving-turkey-to-receive-training-on-politics-in-kandil.html

Former MP: Turkmen to carry weapons to protect themselves

Former MP: Turkmen to carry weapons to protect themselves

22/04/2013

In a press statement , he said "The Turkmen will carry the weapons to protect themselves after the failure of the security government to protect them.”

"We warned the local government of Salah il-Din province and the government from targeting Tuz Khurmato district, but our warnings were not taken into consideration.”

He accused "The security forces of being unqualified and including corrupted officials,” he also accused "Salah il-Din Provincial Council of dealing with Tuz Khurmato in a sectarian way.”

"The government is unable to protect the citizens due to the existence of the Peshmerga forces that protect the Kurds only in the district where the only targeted Community is that of the Turkmen,” he concluded.

MEP METIN KAZAK's SPEECH ON IRAQI TURKMEN ON 14th MARCH 2013 AT THE EU PARLIAMENT

REPOSTING Debates Note Thursday, 14 March 2013 - Strasbourg

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+CRE+20130314+ITEM-013-02+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=en&query=INTERV&detail=4-454-000


Metin Kazak, author . − Mr President, I would urge you all to support the adoption of the emergency resolution on the plight of minority groups in Iraq, in particular the Iraqi Turkmen. Literally hundreds of men, women and children are dying each year in attacks targeted on the Turkmen community, and this tragedy must be stopped.




A dreadful example which represents just the tip of the iceberg of the sectarian violence against the Iraqi Turkmen is the horrific suicide bomb attack that took place on 23 January this year at the funeral in Tuz Khurmatu of a Turkmen civil servant, who had himself been assassinated the previous day. This attack claimed the lives of a further 42 ethnic Turkmen and wounded another 117. Despite the findings of Iraq’s own High Commission for Human Rights, which acknowledges that the Turkmen have been subjected to terrorism, bombings, kidnappings and assassination, neither the Federal Government of Iraq nor the Kurdish regional government have done enough to provide security and protection for all Iraqi citizens in general, and the Turkmen in particular, because they have been numerously targeted on a large scale.




This resolution is not just for the Turkmen, it is for all the minority communities of Iraq who long for peace and security. Therefore, the EU should work closely with the Iraqi Government and use all the tools at its disposal to encourage the Iraqi Government to provide adequate protection to the Turkmen and other minorities.




Lastly, I would like to thank all the political groups for their support in putting such an important resolution before the plenary and urge Members, once again, to adopt it, because Europe has to demonstrate that it has not forgotten the Turkmen community or other Iraqi minorities, and that we will endeavour to ease their suffering.

Irak Türklerinin Geçmişi, Geleceği Yazan: Sadun KÖPRÜLÜ

Irak’ta petrollerin çıkışından sonra Mezopotamya bölgesinde dengeler değişmekle petrol savaşları Kerkük, Erbil, Musul’u kapsamakla Osmanlı İmparatorluğundan sonra bu bölgeler İngilizlerin egemenliği altına alınmıştır.

Batı dünyaları artık gözlerini bizim Kerkük Türkmeneline koymuştur, Irak topraklarına devredilen Kerkük, Musul bölgeleri günümüzde ABD’nin önde gelenekte olan bircik ilkelerinden sayılmaktadır bugünün gündeminde kamuoyunun de değer kazanmaktadır.

Kerkük, Musul bölgemiz önemli bir coğrafyanın tartışma inceleme konusu olmuştur.

Kerkük Türkmeneli zengin petrol kaynaklarından dolayı sömürgeci ve emperyalist devletlerin dikkatini çekerek, bu bölgelere gözler dikilmiştir.

Milletten önce Türk toprakları olan bu bölgeler 1000 Yıldan fazla Türk milleti bu topraklara hakim olarak bu bölgelerde büyük devletler kurmuşlardır bu topraklara bu bölgelere Irak Türkleri tarihten önce Sümerler Türk bir varlığı olmasına rağmen Türkmenlerin tarih öncesi bu topraklara yerleşmesi Irak’ın önde gelen tek unsuru sayılmaktadır .

Irak Türklerinin Irak’a yerleşmesi biz Türklerin Anadolu’ya yerleşmesinden daha önceden büyük bir tarih kanıtıdır bununla Kerkük, Musul ve Türkmeneli bölgesinin Türklük tarihine çok önemli bir yeri bulunmaktadır.

Irak Türkleri sağlam bir alt yapıya sahip olarak büyük devletler kurmuşlardır bu Türk devletlerle tüm Türkmeneli Türklerin hakimiyeti altında kalmışlardır Kerkük, Musul Türklerinin toprakları olarak hiçbir zaman değişilmeden, değişmeyecektir.

Bu kurulan devletlerden büyük Türk devleti Selçuklu devletidir ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğunu saymak gerekmektedir.

Osmanlı imparatorluğu döneminde petrolün ortaya çıkışı Türkmenelini Kerkük, Musul bölgesi coğrafi önem taşarak ekonomik tarafından çok önem vermektedir.

Irak emperyalist İngiltere tarafından işgal edilerek genelge İngiltere bölgeden ayrılırken Türkler bu toprakların sahipleridir.

Ve sonradan Irak devleti kurularak Kerkük, Musul Türkmeneli toprakları Irak devletine verilmiştir.

Kerkük, Musul ve tüm Türkmeneli Anavatan Türkiye’den koparılmasından sonra öz be öz Irak Türkleri sayıları dört milyona yakın olmakla her türlü zulüm işkence baskıya sürekli soykırıma katliamlara maruz kalarak onlara karşı asimilasyonlar haklarında uygulamaya başlamıştır.

Artık Irak devleti başına gelen hükümetler Irak Türklerine hiçbir haklar tanımadan sürekli olarak onlara baskı sürdürmekle Irak’taki Türklere her türlü insan hakları ihlalleri yapılmıştır, ve yapılmaktadır.

Kerkük, Musul bölgesi daha önceden dünyanın en önemli petrol madenlerinin geliştiği yer altı zengin kaynaklarına sahip olmuştur.

Musul, Kerkük ve Türkmeneli toprakları olan bu bölgeler Osmanlı devletinden koparılmakla düşmanlar çalışarak milletimiz tüm engellere baskı zulümlere rağmen milli mücadelesini başlatmıştır.

Irak Türkleri sağ duyulu olarak Irak devletine sadık kalmışlardır kendi ana topraklarını bırakmadan Irak devletine yönetimi altında yaşamayı isteyerek sürekli olarak mücadeleye girişerek bir karış yerlerini düşmanlara vermeden korumuşlardır.

Kerkük, Musul Türkmenelimiz Türkiye Cumhuriyetinin yakın bir tarihinde önemli bir dönüm noktası olmaktaydılar ihmaller nedeniyle ve politika üretememenin kurbanları olmuşlardır.

Artık Musul, Kerkük, Erbil

 Türklüğün simgesi olarak anavatan ayrılık çekmeye üzücü duruma neden olmuştur.

Türkmenelinin kanlı bağrında derin bir yara olarak sızlayarak kanamaktadır.

Kerkük’ün, Musul’un, Telafer, Tuzhurmatu,  Erbil’in ve öteki Türkmeneli bölgelerin hakkında binlerce Türklüğü ile ilgili belgeler bulunmaktadır .

Irak Türkleri yüzyıllardan beri bu topraklar kendi toprakları olmakla öz Türkçe konuşmaktadırlar, yazı dilleri Anadolu Türkçesiyledir uzun yıllardan beri her bir türlü yapıtlar öz Türkçedir.

Artık 4 milyona üstünde olan Irak Türkleri Türkiye’ye ve Türk diline Türklüğe gönülden kanlarıyla bağlıdırlar .

Irak Türkleri dünya Türklerinden farklı olarak Türkiye’ye Türk ırkına Türk toprak Ay yıldız bayrağına suyuna taşına ırmağına tüm duygularıyla Türklükleriyle Türk Turan Ülkücülük ilkeleriyle içten bağlıdırlar.

Irak Türkleri Kerkük, Erbil ,Musul, Bağdat , Diyala, Vasit , şehirlerimizle Tuzhurmatu, Kifri Telafer ,Efgani, Reşidi ya , Selamiye ,Şahreban, Hanekın , Ömer mandan, Tazehurmatu , Altunköprü , Kümbetler, Mendili, Kızıl yar , Kazaniya gibi ilçelerimiz ayrıca tüm Türkmen köylerimizin yoğun olarak buralarda ve Dahok, Zaho, ve Irak’ın güneyinde yaşamaktadırlar.

Irak Türklerinin çoğunluğu okur yazar tahsillidir çiftçi ve köylüsü da azdır, bilinçlidir.

Irak Türkleri yalnız Irak’ta değil dünyanın her yerinde ve Arap ülkelerinde tanılan Irak Türkleri dini Edebiyat alanında bir çok şahsiyetler yetirmişlerdir.

Irak Türklerinin nüfusu 4 milyona yakın olmakla bu nüfusun yarısı üç Türk şehri Kerkük, Musul, Erbil şehirlerinde yaşamaktadırlar,  ayrıca öteki yarısı de diğer Irak’ın Arap şehirlerine dağılmışlardır.

ve birçok Türklerde Araplaşmışlardır, Kürtleşmişlerdir.

1959 yılında Kerkük katliamından sonra çok Irak Türkleri Bağdat, güney ve Irak’ın bir çok yerlerine yerleşmişlerdir .

Kimsesiz Irak Türkleri yıllar boyu sahabesiz kalarak hiçbir zaman devlete karşı isyan etmeden silahlı hiçbir eylemde bulunmamışlardır.

Saddam rejimi Irak Türklerine yaşam hakkı tanımayarak tüm düşmanlar tarafından anayurtları Kerkük bir gelir kaynağı olduğundan dolayı ırkçı Araplarla Kürtler arasında kalmakla onu parçalamaya aralarında bölmeye çalışmaktadırlar.

Kürtlerde Kerkük’ün kendi başkenti olmasını ortaya sürmekle bugünde Amerika, İsrail, İngilizlerin uygulamış olduğu nüfus politikası sonucu Irak Türklerinin yaşamış oldukları Türkmeneli bölgelerine Kürtler hakım olmaktadırlar.

Irak Türkleri 1950 yılından sürekli olarak katliamlara, soykırımlara karşı be karşı olmuşlardır.

1959 tarihinde Türk milletine Kürtler tarafından kanlı katliam hiçbir zaman unutulmayacaktır.

Türklükle damarımızda kan atmaktadır Türk Milletimize bir Mektup

Yazan: Sadun KÖPRÜLÜ

Büyük Türk milleti onuruna, töresine,

geçmişine gelenek göreneğine bağlı bir millet olarak, hiç bir zaman Ataların mert yiğit şehitlerinin prensip yolundan ayrılmadan, ayrılmayacaklar..

Anayurtları olan Türkiye, Kerkük için kanlarını canlarını vererek korku, ölüm bilmeden bir karış toprak yerlerini düşmanlara, yâdlara vermeyecekler.

Kerkük ve Musul, Erbil, Diyala onlara bağlı Tuzhurmatu , Tazehurmatu, Kifri , Kümbetler, Kızıl yar, Dakuk,

Bastamlı. Hanakın, Mendelli , Kızlarbat , Şahraban , Mansuriyet Cebel , Adana köy, Delli Abbas, Altunköprü, Telafer, Şirinhan ,Muhalabiya , Selamiya, Reşidiya, Ömer mandan ,Aziziye,

Yengice, Türkmen bağ ve başka ilçe, bucak, Kasaba.  Köylerimiz Türk’tür her zamanda Türk kalacaktır bu topraklar,

Kendi milleti olan Türklere dönecektir.

Nerde bir Türk olursa orası bizim vatanımız toprak yerlerimiz oralarda kanımızı dökmeye, şehit olmaya hazırız büyük Turan ülkesi Türkiye’den başka bizim Anayurtlarımız, Türkmenistan, Türkistan, Tacikistan, Azerbaycan, Kırgızistan, Özbekistan, Tebriz, Güney Azerbaycan, Erdebil, Orumya, Halep, Lazikiya , Cenin , Ehzan ,Karabağ, Gagavuz, Kızılderililer, Ahıska, ve başka Türk topraklarında yaşayan her bir Türk kardeşimizle  kan, soydaş, kardeşiz, ilkemiz bir duygumuz, yolumuz bir kanımız , dilimiz gönlümüz birdir bir kalacak, ve her an damarımız Türklükle temiz kanla atacaktır.

Nerde olursa olsun bizler Türk toprakları kendi topraklarımız olduğundan dolayı onları canımızdan her bir varlığımızla koruyacağız milletimizi delicesine seveceğiz, ve bu yolunda ölmeye her an cephede duran bir er, asker gibi milletimizin uğrunda ölürüz,  düşmanlar söylediği gibi bizler Türkiye için her şeyimizi, malımızı, mülkümüzü. kanımızı, canımızı veririz doğru Türk olanlar kardeşi Türk’e nasıl canını, kanını vermeyecek.

Millet, Türklük uğurda çok Irak Türkleri kurşuna dizilerek idam olarak hapishaneye atılarak davasını savundular.

Ne mutlu bizlere Türk’üz, Türküyüz Türkçülük diye öleceğiz olacağız yaşayacağız.

Kerkük ve tüm Irak Türklerinin Türk dünyasının toprakları kendi yurtları, topraklarıdır yerleridir ve her zamanda Türklerin kalacaktır.

Irak’ta hiç bir millet yaşamadan Irak’ın güneyinde ve kuzeyinde milattan önceleri yalnız ve yalnız efendi tarihi belli, yüce Türkler yaşarmış uzun yıllardan beri kormuş oldukları devlet, ilhanlarda bellidir.

Bugünlerde boş kafayla hayale dayanan Kürtler Konuşmalarında yüce ulu Türkmen milletini yok etmek için her türlü planlar çizerek, İsrail, Amerika politikasıyla Kerkük, Erbil. Musul.

Ve birçok toprak, yerlerimizi kendi yerleri saydıkları topraklara katmak istiyorlar.

Artık düşmanlar tekrar çıkmayan kapalı yolarına devam ederek eski tarihi olan büyük devletler kuran bir milleti yok etmeye düşmanlarla işbirliği içindedirler bunlarla hainler, ajanlarda bir araya gelmektedirler.

Milletimizi yok etmeye çalışanlar kendileri yok olacaklar.

Kendilerini millet gören Kürtler nerden topraklarımıza geldiler?

Asılları, soyları, boyları nereden? Ataları kim acaba? Kürdün adı bundan bir kaç yıl önce ortaya atıldı Molla Mustafa Barzani uzun süre Komünist Rusya’ya ajanslık yaparak, Kürdün Rus ırkından olduğunu söylemekteydi,

Bu günümüzde Kürtlerin çoğunluğu kendilerini Masun Yahudi olarak saymaktadırlar Irak’ın kuzeyinden bir çok sayıda Yahudiler                  İsrail’de yaşamaktadırlar oranı seçmektedirler kutsal İslam dinini bile unutarak bırakmaktadırlar.

Günümüzde Kürtlerin Yahudi olmaları dinlerini bırakmaları çok acı bir durum ne yazık ki Masunların İsrail’in kucaklarına düşmüşlerdir, buna kanıt olarak Molla Mustafa Mesut Barzani’nin babası uzun yıllarını İsrail’de geçirmiştir.

Öte yandan Celal Talabani, Nuri Talabani iyice tanımalısınız, 15 Temmuz 1959 tarihinde, Türk şehri Kerkük katliamının, önde gelen kıyıcı katillerinden olarak Irak Türklerine karşı her türlü zulüm baskı işkence yapmışlardır.

Nuri Talabani ise çok aşırı Kürtçü düşmancasına öte yandan bir komünist olarak Kerkük adında bir dosya yazarak Kerkük Türk şehrini boş kafasıyla Kürt göstermektedir.

Talabani Türk Kerkük’ü Kürt göstermeden önce aslının ne olduğunu ve nerden gelmiş olduğunu bilmelidir.