In fact, many people are surprised to learn about the presence of the indigenous Turkmen population — despite the fact that Turkmen settlements were established over fifteen hundred years ago in Iraq. Furthermore, during the past century the Turkmen have been deliberately repressed by successive Iraqi regimes. Under Saddam Hussein’s drastic Arabification policy, little official mention was ever made of the distinct Turkmen society of northern Iraq. In addition, Kurdish warlords, who have long coveted control of the oil-rich region of Kirkuk, view any promotion of the Turkmen majority that resides there as a direct threat to their claims.
In addition to presenting a history of the Turkmen people in Iraq, the book also includes several of Scott Taylor’s first-hand observations and encounters with Iraqi Turkmen. The book presents a personal account of a people that have suffered through decades of political oppression and ethnic violence.
The book also includes a detailed account of the author’s harrowing ordeal as a hostage of the Ansar al-Islam, an extremist group working with the resistance in northern Iraq.
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Scott Taylor is the author of several Canadian bestsellers, including "Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America's War Against Iraq", "Diary of an Uncivil War: The Violent Aftermath of the Kosovo Conflict", and "Tested Mettle: Canada's Peacekeepers at War".
Taylor appears regularly in the Canadian media as a military analyst and is the recipient of the 1996 Quill Award for outstanding work in the field of Canadian communications. That same year he won the Alexander Mackenzie Award for journalistic excellence. Taylor is a columnist for the Halifax Herald, the Windsor Star, and Osprey newspapers and has contributed to the Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest and Media Magazine. Some of the on-site reporting that appears in this book was produced while on freelance assignments for the Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Sun, Maclean’s, Aljazeera (English-language news web service), Dnevnik (Macedonian Daily) and Magyar Nemzet (The Hungarian Nation).
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