History
The presence of Turkic peoples in Iraq first began in the seventh century when approximately 1,000 Oghuz Turks were recruited in the Muslim armies of Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad. However, it was the wider migration of the Oghuz Turks towards Anatolia which took place at the end of the ninth century that established a substantial Iraqi Turkmen presence. Successive waves of immigration continued under the rule of the Seljuk Turks who assumed positions of military and administrative responsibilities in the Seljuk Empire. Furthermore, with the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, the conquest of Iraq by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1534, followed by Murad IV’s capture of Baghdad in 1638, resulted in the largest number of Turkish immigration into northern Iraq.
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