Iraq's Kiruk adds Turkish to city's official languages

The Kirkuk Governorship in Iraq announced that they would recognise the Turkish language as one of the city's official languages. This means that Turkish will be used in official correspondence, traffic signs, letters and official and educational institutions.

Turkmens are Iraq's third largest ethnic community after Arabs and Kurds. Mervan Al-Ani, an official from the Kirkuk provincial governer’s office said that “The use of the Turkish language in Kirkuk is a constitutional right".

[sarahkareem]

That's good in areas where there are Turkmen. However its sad that Turkey is removing Arabic sign boards in their own country. God bless Iraq!

[alobaydisheikh]

I was brought up in kirkuk in the seventies it was one of the most peaceful and beautiful cities in Iraq.

[abdulallahi]

We are mixed as well it used to be one unmah and we mixed freely back then

[bubuluwithagoldendudul]

Time for Truks to recognise Kurdish then

[meesamnajef]

Turkey must learn and recognise the Kurdish Language. And have respect for the Arabic language.

[k-m-]

Now let see if our so called brothers in Turkey will the same for Kurds and Arabs etc.

[yashagrawal]

It seems that you are mixing up Turkmen and Turkish.

[tarzabnm]

That's true im from Süleymaniye but in Kerkük they learn Turkish in school My cousin's live in Kerkük

[aqwsderxz]

kurdish is spoken there for over 1000 years and not even aknowledged racist

[mhhocane]

Mashaallah, let's hope we hear good news about only Muslim Turks in this world called uighers.

[zeda]

The more languages you have, the more separation there is! Unity comes in only one language, whatever the language is,

[squaretriangle]

We should all understand thst to recognize minority languages is always a sign of democratic development 🎉🎉🎉

[damirsirotic]

It is commendable that Iraqi Kurdistan allows the Turkish minority rights that the Turks would not even think of giving to the Kurdish majority in the southeast of Turkey.

[Abah-oyeb]

Iraq kurkuk, ,i remember to syekh raad alkurdi

[Loutianer]

Kirkuk is growing but the Turks in tal afar really need help

[abdulzahir]

All Muslim countries must get together and make arabic as their common language and unite together in common interests instead of using Western language and culture in Muslim dominant countries. 🎉🎉

[fatihertas]

Great example by Kurds. Something Turks will never ever do

[TheBackpacker]

Arabs was slave's of turks in history am i right or wrong 😂😂

[leventtrolley]

No, it is not the Turkish language, but the monster created by Ataturk. Only some people know what Turkish looks like for real.

[OfficialUKGov]

As a Kurd: This is a stupid decision. While the Kurdish people remain uncompensated for their years of oppression and our brothers in Afrin remain occupied, we put the Turkish language on the signs of what is CONSTITUTIONALLY the capital city of the Kurdistan region. Shame on the politicians we have been given. We had better leaders in the times of Mustafa and Qazi.