Iraqi Turkoman National Party
The Iraqi Turkoman National Party represents the interests of Iraq's Turkoman population and has proposed the appointment of a Turkoman vice president or deputy prime minister, in order to fairly address the political problems faced by Turkomans in Iraq. Formed through the consolidation of five Iraqi Turkmen political parties, the Iraqi Turkoman National Party is "widely believed by observers and accused by other Turkoman political parties to act on the behalf of Turkey with a view at undermining the Kurdish self-rule experience in Iraq," according to a report from the Iraqi Kurdistani Dispatch on 6 November 2003. Its deputy head is Jamal Shan; he has opposed the Transitional Administrative Law because it did not recognize Turkomani as an official language, which he claims constituted Turkomans as second-class citizens.
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