In history, before there was a country called 'Iraq' and before the Turks came to Anatolia with great migrations, there were Turks in the lands of today's Iraq.
According to the information given by historian Abdizade Hüseyin Hüsâmeddin; In 610, when Islam was revealed, there were many Turkish tribes and Turkish principalities in the Iraq region.
The most well-known was the Banuklu tribe.
This tribe lived in a city called 'Banukya'.
Arab armies encountered this tribe on the battlefield in the second half of 632.
When the Turks realized that they could not cope with the large Arab army, they agreed to pay the jizya and prevented the war.
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In the following years, Seljuk Turks came to the region.
When the region's lands were taken under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks brought from Anatolia were settled in the Mosul Province.
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