The Iraqi Turkmens are Iraqis of Turkic origin who adhere to a Turkish heritage and identity. [1] [2] [1] and [2] cannot reference your version and the previous version. moreover, your change introduces a contradiction: how can an ethnic group native to one country identify itself with another ethnic group living in another country?

The Iraqi Turkmen Brotherhood Party (Turkish: Irak Türkmen Kardeşlik Partisi, Arabic: حزب اخوان ترکمن عراق) is a political party in Iraq led by Walid Sharika.It is mostly made up of Iraqi Turkmen and is part of the Kurdistani Alliance.. Unlike the Iraqi Turkmen Front, it supports Kurdish moves to incorporate Kirkuk into Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Turkmen/Turkoman minority mainly reside in northern and central Iraq, in the so-called Turkmeneli region – which is a political term used by the Turkmen/Turkoman to define the vast swath of territory in which they have historically had a dominant population.

The Iraqi Turkmens are the descendants of various waves of Turkic migration to Mesopotamiabeginning from the 7th century until the end of Ottoman rule (1919).

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository English: The Iraqi Turkmens (also spelled Turcomans, Turkomens, and Iraqi Turkmans ), Iraqi Turks, or Turks of Iraq are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq who are the ethnic kin of the Turks. They mainly reside in northern Iraq and share close cultural and linguistic ties with Turkey.

Iraqi Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in the Turkmeneli region in northern Iraq Turks in Israel, a Turkish minority living in Israel Turks in Lebanon, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon Syrian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in northern Syria Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey

Turkmen is a member of the East Oghuz branch of the Turkic family of languages; its closest relatives being Turkish and Azerbaijani, with which it shares a relatively high degree of mutual intelligibility . Turkmen has vowel harmony, is agglutinative and has no grammatical gender. Word order is subject–object–verb .