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News & Articles
>   An Assyrian Tragedy - August 24, 2010
   What will you do if a loved one is kidnapped? To what extreme will you go to see them returned safely?...
>   Council of Europe Demands Sweden Stop Deporting Iraqi Refugees - July 22, 2010
   Riyad is trying to obtain a receipt from a physician. He has to take sleeping tablets and anti-depressants and calming medicines...
>   America lowers the flag: Iraq's unquiet peace - July 19, 2010
   On 14 June, this year an interpreter for the US army called Hameed al-Daraji was shot dead as...
>   U.S. general sees Iraq pullout without Arab-Kurd deal - July 21, 2010
   The top commander in Iraq said on Wednesday that U.S. forces in the volatile north would probably be the last to leave the country...
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Articles on Turkmen
>   Iraq's Turkomans Feel New Political Strength - April 01, 2010
   The Turkomans themselves express it best. Outside of Iraq, they say, people know about Sunnis, Shi'a, and Kurds...
>   Conflict and international migration: Iraqi Turkmen in Turkey - July 18, 2005
   This paper addresses a known issue with a particular focus on an unknown population. Iraqi Turkmen, as a minority...
>   Turkmen join Arabs to stop referendum in Iraq - August 17, 2009
   Arab and Turkmen politicians in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk province have banded together to try to block an impending referendum on the future status...
>   Attack Against Turkmen Existence in Iraq: Tazehurmatu
   As the guest of honor in the conference named “The role of Turkmens in a New Iraq,” held in Baghdad on June 20,...
>   Pressure applied to members of the Turkmen - August 20, 2009
   Referring to Iraq's internally displaced peoples the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) reported in February 2002 that...
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Turkmen Authors
>   Press Release on the Upcoming Iraq census - July 09, 2010
   When the requirements to realize a fair census are absent, organization of census will provide unrealistic data which disturb the governmental projects and encumber the developments....
>   Kerkuk and the Kurdish aspiration
   One of these ethno-linguistic groups is the Türkmen [ ], who have made a major effort to define...
>    Kurdish authorities overshadowing the elections in Iraq - March 26, 2010
   Throughout the election, Kurds in Iraq have maintained their irregularities which they initiated...
>   Iraqi elections leave Kurdish authorities unmasked - March 25, 2010
   Following the parliamentary elections held on March 7th 2010 in Iraq, the irregularities of the Kurds began to emerge...
>   NOROUZ (New Day Feast, Yeni Gün Bayrami) - March 15, 2010
   The name Norouz origins from a Persia which is a combined name of Nev (new) and Ruz (day), meaning...
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Kerkuk Foundation
Articles on Kerkuk
>   Turkey, Northern Iraq and Kirkuk
   Following the US intervention in Iraq, Turkey's Iraq policy has shifted from the fear induced Northern Iraq-dependent policy....
>   Governing (in) Kirkuk: Resolving the Status of a Disputed Territory in post-American Iraq
   Kirkuk has been among Iraq’s most intractable problems. A diverse province and city with three main...
>   Continued U.S. presence urged for northern Iraq to secure oil sector - April 17, 2010
   The U.S. military should maintain a major presence in the disputed oil capital in northern Iraq, according to a...
>   Kerkuk and the Kurdish aspiration
   One of these ethno-linguistic groups is the Türkmen [ ], who have made a major effort to define...
>    Iraq stability hinges on fate of oil city - April 09, 2010
   As Iraq's political barons scramble for power in the messy aftermath of March elections...
>   Kirkuk vehicle maintainers keep mission going at Mosul - April 07, 2010
   For two vehicle maintainers attached to Kirkuk Regional Air Base, their job responsibilities...
>   Iraq polls could heighten tensions over Kirkuk - January 28, 2010
   Iraqi Kurd Kamal Aga's face lights up when he recalls his childhood on a farm in Daquq, south of Kirkuk,...
>   Iraq's divided vote may deepen Kirkuk dispute - March 23, 2010
   A dispute between Kurds and Arabs over Iraq's oil producing city of Kirkuk may deepen after a strong election...
>   Iraq's Kurds Lose Political Dominance In Kirkuk - March 19, 2010
   Before the March 7 parliamentary elections in Iraq, there was no question of who dominated politics in mixed-population Kirkuk...
>   Iraq Election May Leave Kirkuk Status Uncertain - March 12, 2010
   Early election results appear to reflect a hardening of divisions between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens...
>    Kurds no closer to taking Kirkuk after Iraqi elections - March 08, 2010
   At 9 p.m., some four hours after polls closed in Kirkuk on March 7, the sky outside my window starts to echo with...
>    Kirkuk Hopes Election Will Take the City Past Old Strife - March 07, 2010
   the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk will vote in a national poll for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion...
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Articles on HR
>   Still Targeted: Continued Persecution of Iraq’s Minorities - 2010
   Although the overall security situation in Iraq has gradually improved, the conditions for minority...
>   Human Rights Report on Assyrian In Iraq - 2010
   The purpose of this report is to give the facts regarding the situation of Assyrians in northern Iraq, including the...
>   The Mandaean Associations Union - May 24, 2010
   On the 22nd,may,2010 a young mandaean man Mr.Baha Sori Zaggi was killed on his way home from work, He was kidnapped...
>   Mandaean Human Rights Annual Report - 2009
   Will October 17th 2007 - the date that the cross border operation authorization was...
>   Report of United Nations General assembly on Iraq - December 01, 2009
   The present report is a summary of 50 stakeholders’ submissions to the universal periodic review...
>   A, too late, published report of HRW; Iraq: Protect Besieged Minorities - November 10, 2009
   Iraq's central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government should protect...
>   British army accused of 'routine abuse' of Iraqi civilians - Summary - September 21, 2009
   The use of illegal interrogation techniques by the British army in Iraq was widespread and endemic, a public...
>    Kurdistan's Troubled Democracy
>    Security forces above the law in Iraqi Kurdistan
>    Mandaean Human Rights Annual Report - March 2008
>    The Other Iraq
>    The Indigenous Iraqi Assyrian Community Since the Fall of Saddam Hussein
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Books
>    The Turkmen Reality in Iraq
>    The Turkmen and the Iraqi Homeland
>   The Turkmen of Iraq
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>   Tuz Khormatu
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>   A report into Kurdish abuse in Turkmeneli
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