Roads to Iraq

This kind if misinformation you get from westerners who try to be an experts in Iraq’s ethnics conflicts.

Meet the Iraqi Police in Kirkuk

The city’s terrorists are mostly Baathists, not Islamists, and their racist ideology casts Kurds and Turkmens as enemies. They’re boxed in on all sides, though, and have a hard time operating outside their own neighborhoods. In their impotent rage they murder fellow Arabs by the dozens and hundreds.

Since my mother originally a Kurd from Kirkuk province, my father is a Turkman from Kirkuk city, and many members of the family from both sides are still living their, this is the situation right now.

Kirkuk was never a stronghold of the Baath party, military kept law and order in Kirkuk during Saddam’s government and not the Baath party.

After the US invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam’s government creating the chaos in every Iraqi city, Kirkuk was not effected by the event, police, civil services were all functioning as it was before the invasion.

In a matter of a month, a wave of bombing blasted Kirkuk’s neighborhoods, ask anybody in Kirkuk and doesn’t matter if he is a Turkman or Kurd about who is doing these bombing and he will tell you:

Barazani [Kurdish warlord]

Alerted by this Kurdish invasion of Kirkuk city, Turkman who never had Militias before argued that it is the time to establish their own militias to counter the Kurds PKK militias.

Read:

Why the Turkmen should have an armed Militia? [PDF]

The Turkmen of Iraq do not see any obstacle from having such an active militia in north of Iraq and to be positioned adjacent to 5000 PKK Kurdish terrorists whom have been living in north of Iraq and being supported and equipped by both Kurdish parties.

This call was supported by Turkey since many Turkman are descended from Turkey like my family and many Turkman still have family members and lobbyists in the Turkish government.

Kurds knew that wining Kirkuk, can only be established by dominating Kirkuk city.

Read:

Gertrude Bell letter [14 August 1921]

The one exception is Kirkuk. There, as you know, the town population is Turcoman and the village population Kurd. Neither want Arab rule and among the Turks there has been a good deal of Turkish, anti-British propaganda.

A Kurdish campaign started, with “importing�? Kurds from Iran and Turkey as settlers claiming that they are deported long time ago by Saddam government.

Read:

Kirkuk: Harbinger of Iraq’s future

They left as two people, and then after 12 years they come back as 15…..There were not more than 5000 and many of them were from outlying villages,

Allied Turkman and Arab militias started a counter-campaign by assassinating the “new settlers�?.

As you can see from this short history of Kirkuk after the invasion, Baath party has nothing to do with the conflict in the city.

All ethics groups in Kirkuk are using Baath party to legitimize their plans or to explain their failure, counting on people like M. Totten who will echo these false calls.