The Iraqi Turks or Iraqi Turkmens (commonly misspelled as Turcomans, Turkomens, and Iraqi Turkmans) are a distinct Turkic ethnic group, the third-largest ethnic group (after Arabs and Kurds) in Iraq, living mostly in northern Iraq, in an area which they call "Turkmeneli", notably in the cities of Kirkuk, Arbil, Tal Afar, and Mosul. There are also significant numbers of Turkmen in the central provinces of Baghdad, Wasit.

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  • 500,000 by most Western sources, to 2,500,000 - 3,000,000 by other sources.
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  • The Iraqi Turks or Iraqi Turkmens (commonly misspelled as Turcomans, Turkomens, and Iraqi Turkmans) are a distinct Turkic ethnic group, the third-largest ethnic group (after Arabs and Kurds) in Iraq, living mostly in northern Iraq, in an area which they call "Turkmeneli", notably in the cities of Kirkuk, Arbil, Tal Afar, and Mosul. There are also significant numbers of Turkmen in the central provinces of Baghdad, Wasit. Estimates of their numbers vary dramatically, (in accordance with Iraq's assimilation policies no realistic and independent census results have been revealed regarding the Iraqi Turkmen population) from 500,000 by most western sources to 4,500,000 by other sources. They have been undergoing decades of assimilation campaigns in Iraq. The Iraqi Turkmen form a distinct group within the Oghuz Turk classification, which includes the Seljuk Turks, Ottoman Turks, modern Turkish people, Azeris, and the Turkmens of Central Asia. The language used by the Iraqi Turkmens is practically identical with the Turkish language used in Turkey and bears no resemblance with the Turkmen language used in Turkmenistan. Turkmens live in Iraq and Syria since the Seljuk period, as the ruling class of the Seljuks were Turkmens, including Toğrül Beg, the founder of the dynasty.
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  • Iraqi Turkmens
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  • 500,000 by most Western sources, to 2,500,000 - 3,000,000 by other sources.
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  • The Iraqi Turks or Iraqi Turkmens (commonly misspelled as Turcomans, Turkomens, and Iraqi Turkmans) are a distinct Turkic ethnic group, the third-largest ethnic group (after Arabs and Kurds) in Iraq, living mostly in northern Iraq, in an area which they call "Turkmeneli", notably in the cities of Kirkuk, Arbil, Tal Afar, and Mosul. There are also significant numbers of Turkmen in the central provinces of Baghdad, Wasit.
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  • Iraqi Turkmens
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  • Iraqi Turkmens
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