The
Iraqi Turkoman are a minority (at about 10000 people) living in
Iraq. These people are the descendants of those Turks the
Ottoman Empire brought to the region from
Turkey to work as a secure line of people to transport mail from
Baghdad to
Istanbul and vice versa. They speak a language that is a mixture of
Arabic,
Kurdish and
old Turkish[?]. It is not a very moderate and strong language.
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