The curriculum reflects the priorities of the school's founder, a member of Iraq's ethnic Turkmen minority.
It is an ethnic hodge-podge of Uzbeks and Tajiks, Aimaq and Hazaras, Turkmen, Mongols and Baluch.
Non-Arab communities, mainly Kurds, Turkmen and Assyrians make up somewhere between 20% and 25% of Iraq's population.
The much smaller Assyrian and Turkmen communities of Iraq are organising themselves politically in the post-Saddam era.
In December, a natural-gas pipeline to Iran was opened, the first Turkmen gas-export pipeline to bypass Russia.
India, Pakistan and the European Union (EU) are also anxious to get their hands on Turkmen gas.
Since the 1950s, Iraqi regimes encouraged Arabs to settle in Kirkuk and other predominantly Kurdish and Turkmen areas.
Tuz Khurmato lies 175km (110 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, and is populated mainly by ethnic Turkmen.
Iran offers one of the most direct export routes, particularly for Turkmen gas.
However, strong tribal allegiances among the Turkmen can be a source of tension.
Those who failed to declare a choice would automatically become Turkmen citizens only.
Of the 111 parliamentary seats, 11 are allotted to minorities that include a mandatory five Turkmen, five Christians and one Armenian.
Add to this a proposed pipeline to carry Turkmen gas to eastern China, and Central Asia could be fuelling China's economy soon.
Tajiks speak Persian, whereas Azeris, Turkmen, Uzbeks and Kazakhs speak Turkic languages.
Kirkuk - home to a mixture of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen - is one of the most bitterly contested of Iraq's disputed territories.
Bremer said the interim administration would represent Iraq's diverse population, including Sunni and Shiite Muslims, Kurds, Turkmen and members of the small Christian population.
Niyazov attached such importance to his own epic account of the Turkmen nation that questions on the text appeared in the national driving test.
Biden also met with Iraqi leaders in the disputed and oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, where Arabs, Turkmen and Kurds are jockeying for power.
Observers say the town, which has a mixed population of Sunni Arabs and Turkmen, is an area used by insurgents crossing the Syrian border in both directions.
With its massive oil reserves, Kirkuk - home to a mixture of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen - is one of the most bitterly contested of Iraq's disputed territories.
Even as they work within a federal structure, a crisis may emerge in Kirkuk, a city that has historically been an ethnic mix of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen.
With foreign investors keeping away, the Turkmen economy remains underdeveloped.
That was supposed to be only a beginning: Iran's plan was to extend the pipeline so that Turkmen gas could be exported to Europe by way of Iran and Turkey.
But America, determined to bypass Iran, is encouraging Turkey to consider a costlier, roundabout route: Turkmen gas would be carried by pipeline under the Caspian, through Azerbaijan and thence to Turkey.
According to the Ashgabat arrangement, Turkey agreed to buy more than 28 billion cubic metres of Turkmen gas a year, almost three times the quantity that it had signed up for in Tehran.
Numerous letters to Turkmen officials have remained unanswered.
On July 23rd, the State Department at last delivered its verdict on Turkey's behaviour to a congressional committee: since Turkey was to receive Turkmen gas, not Iranian gas, it would not be subject to sanctions.
The Russian authorities had envisioned a gradual phasing out, but the Turkmen leader took them by surprise by issuing a decree that gave dual-citizenship-holders living in Turkmenistan only until June 22nd to decide which passport they wanted to keep.
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