As a result of subsequent migrations following each other in past countries, the people of Iraq is from Sami origin and it is agreed that they had been assimilated among the new people coming to the country. The Arabic involving the group becoming Arabic afterwards consist three fifth of the country population. The majority of Arabic live in the middle and south areas of the country. That the Arabic have the political and economic power was obtained as a result of pressure of political power and practice that tend to have racialist and to much Arabic chauvinism. The great majority of the Kurdish lived in the north and northeast moundenious areas. They consist approximately 20% of the country population. The Kurdish that has been fighting with central goverment since the foundation of Iraq can be said to have had a countryside life and live on livestock. The Turks settled in Iraq mostly and commenly in 8-9-10 centuries before, live in the middle, north and northwest areas of Iraq today. As we will see it, the Iraq Turks continually provided for Turk migrations untill Ottoman period, contitute 12% of the population as the second large minority following the Kurdish.
The ethnic population of Iran extraction settling in the east part of Iraq with the migrations waves in the past, was nearly vanished as a result of departing policy carried out by Iraq government. A calling attention minority among the other ethnic groups is the Süryani whose population is about 4%. Furthermore, the propoions of minority as in country population, Yezidler living in the west and north of Musul, Mandayyalar settling in Bağdat and living on the lineof Iraq is agreed to be 4%. We should expressed that on this, a reliable census hasn't been done consisting the citizens living in Iraq, the languages they speak and ethnic origins not being done census especially by objective observiors, statistical datums on this issue, studies and numbers on population appear thanks to the estimate much more abuot annual population increase of the country.
Kurdish is spoken in Iraq whose official language is Arabic in the areas that the Kurdish are settled. Towns such as Henekin, Karatepe, Mandalı, Henekin divided into Diala, Kerkük, Erbil, Musul area that live the Turks and even nearly 300 000 Turks groups living in some districts.
In the center of Bağdat speak in Turkish. The Turk's maintain their culture, tradition and conventions up to now or see the indispensible part of Turkish from the literature point of view. The area is one of the wealtiest areas, not losing its importance in Turkish world so far, and from the verbal Turkish folk literature products view.