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The Iraqi Turkmen genocide refers to the series of ... 1959 Kirkuk massacre, ... claimed that the number of Turkmen refugees rose to 600,000 in February 2017. ...
The Metropolitans of Kirkuk during the second half of the twentieth century were Ephrem Guogue (1954–6), Rufa'il Rabban (1957–67), Gabriel Qoda (7 March 1968 – 1977) and Andrew Sana (1977-2002). [6] Louis Sako succeeded Andrew Sana as archbishop of Kirkuk on 24 October 2002. He was elected Chaldean-Catholic Patriarch of Babylon in ...
Kirkuk is located in a disputed area of Iraq that runs from Sinjar on the Syrian border southeast to Khanaqin and Mandali on the Iranian border. [43] Kirkuk has been a disputed territory for around eighty years — Kurds wanted Kirkuk to become part of the Kurdistan Region, which has been opposed by the region's Arab and Turkmen populations. [44]
The Battle of Kirkuk, part of the 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, was a military deployment by the Iraqi Security Forces to retake Kirkuk Governorate from the Peshmerga after the latter ignored repeated warnings to withdraw, [20] sparking clashes between the two forces. [21]
As part of the Al-Anfal Campaign, during the Iran–Iraq War, Saddam's regime destroyed 3,000 to 4,000 villages and drove hundreds of thousands of Kurds to become refugees or be resettled across Iraq, [12] as well as Assyrians [14] [15] and Turkmen. Some 100,000 people were killed or died during the al-Anfal campaign, which is often equated to ...
Iraqi air defenses shot down a Turkish drone Thursday morning over the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi military officials said. Brig. Gen. Abdul Salam, deputy commander of air defense, told ...
Iraqi government loses significant territories in northern Iraq to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, including the region from Mosul to Tikrit and Tal Afar along with parts of Kirkuk and Diyala Governorates. [20] Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant comes within 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the centre of the capital city Baghdad. [21]
Iraqi refugees have mainly fled into urban centers across region, rather than in refugee camps. [1] There are roughly 2 million Iraqi refugees living in countries neighboring Iraq [5] [6] and 95% of them still live in the Middle East - although other nations in Europe have begun to accept Iraqi refugees. [4]