Major insurgent attacks Foreign interventions IS genocide of minorities IS war crimes Timeline The Iraqi Turkmen genocide refers to the series of killings, rapes, executions, expulsions, and sexual slavery of Iraqi Turkmen in Islamic State-controlled territory.

They are of Turkic descent and live in the Turkmeneli historical region, surrounded by Arabs to the south and Kurds to the north.

During the June 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, IS captured many lands that are Turkmen-majority or have significant Turkmen populations, such as Mosul, Talafar, Tikrit and parts of Kirkuk and Diyala provinces.

[15] In June 2014, when IS's army first captured Talafar, it abducted 1,300 Iraqi Turkmen, around 700 men, 470 women and 130 children.

[22] In September 2014, the UN sent a team into Iraq to investigate the crimes, and Amnesty International presented evidence of the Islamic State committing acts of ethnic cleansing against Turkmens.

[27] 65 children from the Yezidi and Turkmen communities were left in an orphanage in Mosul, who were traumatized from witnessing their parents murder.

[28] On June 16, 2014, IS massacred at least 40 Turkmen from 4 different locations (Chardaghli, Karanaz, Beshir, Biravchi), all near the city of Kirkuk.

[33] Many Turkmen residents of the villages Talafar, Bashir, Biravchi and Karanaz also fled after receiving more letters from the jihadists.

[34] On 18 June during the clashes between IS and Iraqi Ground Forces between the towns of Amirli and Tuz, at least 20 Turkmen civilians were killed.

[31] During the siege of Amirli, 150 people lost their lives due to the harsh conditions, including 50 children and 10 new borns.

They held signs and demanded that the Iraqi government do something to recover around 450 missing Turkmen women, but the protest was ignored.

[40] Hasan Turan, leader of the ITF, feared that if the Turkmen women were to return, they would likely become victims of honor killings by their families.

[46] Again on March, IS executed 9 Turkmen widows in Qara Quyan, Nineveh, whose husbands were killed by jihadists.

On the same month, a young Turkmen named Erhan Camci was kidnapped from his house in Kirkuk.

The ITF stated that the IS attacks on Iraqi Turkmens was a strategic ethnic cleansing campaign.

[4] 540 Turkmen civilians from Tal Afar went missing, including 125 women, again at the hands of IS, and only 22 of them were found again.

[53] In the Turkmen village of Bashir, 9 women were kidnapped, raped and hung on lampposts in public.