Turkman Shiia Council

Our council was established on August 24 2003, a day after several Turkman Shiias were shot and killed in the town of Tuz Khurmatu
The council's main aim is to increase the awareness among the Shiias of Iraq across their different ethnic entities. Many Iraqi Shiias may not know that there are Turkmans who are Shiia.

Who Are the Turkmans
The Turkmans are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq. They number between 2-3 million. Most of them are Shiia.
 

The Turkmans live mainly in the northern part of Iraq. And their main concentration is in the city of Kerkuk (Kirkuk). This city is the richest city in oil; and that is why it , and will continue to be, a tense city. Based on the British Public Records Office (PRO), Turkmen were the majority in this city
 

A famous Shiia Turkman district of Kerkuk is called Tiseen (Arabic for number Ninety). It was called as such because a group of early Shiias who went to join Imam Husain (as) in Kabala, they arrived after the 10 ^th of Muharram, after the Amawi authorities discovered them, the group fled north and settled here, in Tiseen, there numbered ninety of them

Reference: Read about Tuz Khurmatu incident, The Washington Post, here

Turkman areas are highlighted in Blue