Sentence examples for Shiite Turkmen from inspiring English sources

The men were Shiite Turkmen.

It was the second devastating attack to strike near Shiite Turkmen mosques in recent months.

On Saturday, a truck bomb in Taza, a Shiite Turkmen area in northern Iraq, killed at least 68 people.

Meanwhile, thousands of people from another beleaguered Iraqi minority — Shiite Turkmen — face destruction in the town of Amerli, near Kirkuk, under an ISIS siege.

The two attacks in Qabak, a Shiite Turkmen village just outside Tal Afar in Mosul Province, also left 95 people wounded, 80 of them at the school.

The Amerli bombing, for instance, was aimed at a community of Shiite Turkmen, who remain in the country in extremely small numbers.

But even with their warts, they are providing Iraqis a forum for the kind of horizontal conversation -- between Sunnis, Shiites, Turkmen, Christians and Kurds -- that Saddam never allowed and must happen for any Iraqi democracy to have a solid base.

There is no requirement that Iraqis -- Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish, Turkmen -- resolve their differences and together plan to rebuild.

The Helsinki agreement, which was hammered out over meetings in September and April, was signed by 33 politicians from Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish, Turkmen, Communist and other parties.

Kurds say the often savage uprootings of villages also spring from a deep racist streak in Mr. Hussein and his confidants, who regard the nation's Shiite Muslims, Turkmen, Kurds and Assyrian Christians as inferior to the ruling class of Sunni Muslim Arabs.

U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces, Sunni Muslim tribal fighters, Kurdish Peshmerga, lran-linked Shiite militias, Turkmen fighters and Turkish forces have all voiced desire to take part in Mosul's liberation.