Abstract:

Telafer, today as an important district in northern-Iraq among Turkey, Syria and Iraq, constitutes one of the most strategic points in the Middle East. With a population of 500 thousand of the world’s largest district Telafer which is one of those features and the surrounding area as well as the Turkmen population density and also draws attention. Telafer with Turkmen in northern Iraq, the region to come up to the pre-Islamic period expenses. But the heavy influx of the Turkmen Seljuk and Ottoman period have been. Remaining between Mosul and Sinjar Telafer, Yavuz Sultan Selim to the period when the Ottoman rule into the starboard Sincar was connected to the township. After conquering in this region Sinjar when comected to Diyarbakır, Telafer also connected to Diyarbakır Province. In the region after conquering Sinjar when connected to Diyarbakir Diyarbakır Province de Telafer linked. But the legal period to conquer Baghdad and around Baghdad Telafer were included within the borders. Mosul is repeated with a Telafer linked to Diyarbakır linked. Sinjar and Telafer XIX. Until the middle of the century was due to the Diyarbakir Province. Until the middle of the century was due to the Diyarbakir Province. Telafer, in the reign of Ottoman rule has undergone many administrative changes. During this period, gradually increasing strategic importance Telafer, 25 March 1914 at the first class of second-class township to township were commuted. City, in 1917, within the center are connected into an township were separated Sinjar. Telafer, as well as strategic importance, is inhabited entirely by Turkmen tribes. It’s intense as the lives of the Turkmen tribes of the region that are different but the names of all of the tribes are Turkish

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