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A minority (about 10000 persons) living in Iraq. These people are the descendants of those turks the ottoman empire brought to the region from Turkey to work as a secure line of people to transport mail from Baghdad to Istanbul and vice versa. They speak a language that is a mixture of Arabic, Kurdish and old Turkish. It is not a very moderate and strong language.

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