Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman

Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman الاتحاد الإسلامي لتركمان العراق
Secretary-General	Abbas al-Bayati
Deputy Secretary General	Jasim Mohammed Jaafar
Founded	1991
Ideology	Iraqi Turkmen interests
National affiliation	State of Law Coalition
Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq:	0 / 325
Seats in the local governorate councils:	0 / 440
Politics of Iraq Political parties Elections

The Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman (or Turkoman Islamic Union, Arabic: الاتحاد الإسلامي لتركمان العراق) is a political party in Iraq led by Abbas al-Bayati. It was formed in 1991^[1] and participated in discussions with other exile groups before the invasion of Iraq. It is mostly made up of Shiite Iraqi Turkmen.

In the elections in January 2005 and December 2005 it joined with other Shiite parties in the United Iraqi Alliance.

The deputy leader of the party is Jasim Mohammed Jaafar, who was the Minister of Housing and Construction in the 2005 Iraqi Transitional Government and Minister of Youth and Sports in the 2006 government of Nouri al-Maliki.

See also

• List of Islamic political parties

References

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