Siden 2003 har [[arabisering]] af turkmenere i endnu højere grad været erstattet af [[kurdificering]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Al-Ali,  Pratt|first=Nadje Sadig, Nicola Christine|title=What kind of liberation?: women and the occupation of Iraq|year=2009|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25729-0|pages=109|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7KnoG_52Jh8C&pg=PA109}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Preti Taneja, Minority Rights Group International|title=Assimilation, exodus, eradication: Iraq's minority communities since 2003|year=2007|publisher=Minority Rights Group International|pages=19|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,4565c22553,4565c25f653,469cbf9d0,0.html}}</ref><ref>[http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10562 "Overcrowding and Kurdification threaten Christians in northern Iraq"] (AsiaNews, October 2007)</ref> Kurdere er af flere internationale organisationer blevet beskyldte for at tvangsforflytte og forfølge <ref>[http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Turkmen-Ethnic-Cleansing-in-Iraq--Perpetrated-by--Kurds--Connected-with-Al-Qaeda/142949 Turkmen Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq, Perpetrated by 'Kurds' Connected with Al Qaeda<!-- Bot genereret titel -->]</ref> turkmenere fra Kirkuk og andre store byer i de nordlige dele af Irak.<ref>http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/turkomans-iraq-minority-major-impact {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007085438/http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/turkomans-iraq-minority-major-impact |date= 7. oktober 2012 }} Now Public</ref><ref>http://www.minorityrights.org/5750/iraq/turkomans.html Minority Rights</ref> Kurdiske sikkerhedstyrker har også arresteret hundredeis af arabere og turkmenere. Flere af dem er blevet tortureret.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/turkomans-iraq-minority-major-impact |title=The Turkomans of Iraq – A Minority with Major Impact |access-date=11. maj 2015 |archive-date= 7. oktober 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007085438/http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/turkomans-iraq-minority-major-impact |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.minorityrights.org/5750/iraq/turkomans.html «Turkomans»], World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples</ref>
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