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The Turks of Iraq or Turkmen, from the origins of their settlement to the Treaty of Sevres which will forever divide their heart into two parts: the Turkish and the Iraqi
The origins of the Turks of Iraq
The first Turks arrived in the territories of present-day Iraq since the 7th century with the first Turkish migrations, finding employment in the various Arab armies of the time, always in search of the terrible warriors of the East. The latter then managed to take advantage of the increasingly strong political fragmentation of the area, establishing themselves for the first time with the

However, the “qualitative leap” came with the arrival of the Ottomans who looked with great interest at the presence of their blood relatives in such a delicate area. Since the conquest of Iraq by
The infamous Treaty
As with most Ottoman Turks, their fortunes were completely transformed following the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the infamous Treaty of Sevres. As a result of the latter, in fact, the Turks of Iraq were completely cut off from modern Turkey, finding themselves as a majority population of a large minority empire in a country built artfully. The presence of the Turkish Türkmeneli or Iraq within the newborn Iraq was essential since, near Kirkuk and

One of the main British objectives was in fact to get their hands on these immense riches and it was precisely for this reason that the province had to be linked to Baghdad. The tension between the United Kingdom and Turkey was resolved only in 1926 when
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