Iraqi Turkmen Erotic

Iraqi Turkmen comprise approximately 2% of the Iraqi population — approximately 700,000+, concentrated in the historic 'Turkmen belt' of northern Iraq (Mosul, Kirkuk where Iraqi Turkmen historically constituted a substantial share of the city population, Erbil, Tal Afar plus other areas). The Iraqi Turkmen are predominantly Turkic-language-speaking, with both Sunni and Shia sub-populations. The community is genealogically and linguistically related to but distinct from broader Turkmen (Turkmenistan) and Azerbaijani populations — the Iraqi Turkmen language is closer to Azerbaijani Turkic than to Turkmen Turkic. The community has been subject to documented displacement and demographic engineering under successive Iraqi state policies (the Saddam-era Arabization of Kirkuk plus post-2003 inter-ethnic tensions over Kirkuk's political-territorial status) and the 2014-2017 ISIS occupation that targeted Tal Afar Turkmen.