Irak Türkmenleri
Tribes of Turkish origin migrated from Central Asia north of the Caspian Sea and the Altai towards the end of 4500 BC and came to the lands of Near-Asia and Mesopotamia via Iran and Anatolia and formed great civilizations here, especially the Sumerians.
Iraqi Turkmens are the continuation of the Turks who came from Turkestan, Bukhara, Samarkand, Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Dagestan and the surrounding regions of Iraq at various times for economic, geographical and political reasons.
From the middle of the 6th
century, Oghuz tribes began to appear in Iraq and Syria and intensive Turkish migrations took place in the 10th
and 11th
centuries.
Tribes migrating from Turkestan followed the route of Fergana, Samarkand, Tashkent, Bukhara, Mashhad, Nishapur, Hamadan, Kirmnashah, while tribes coming from the north of the Caspian Sea went to Merağa via the Caucasus, Azerbaijan. Those who migrated from Syria used the Hoy Urumiye Erbil Mosul or Kars Erzur Show More
