The strike targeted suspected militants of Turkmen origin in the North Waziristan tribal area, they said.
Finally, my parents moved to Turkmen S.S.R. in order to save their family from persecution.
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.
Under Soviet rule, Central Asia was carved into the Kazakh, Kirgiz, Tajik, Turkmen and Uzbek republics.
Those Turkmen who manage to get a foreign education are often scared to come back.
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.
Russian language was eliminated, the non-Turkmen population was persecuted, and those who went against the dictatorship regime were jailed.
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.
When insurrections broke out among Iran's Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab minorities, he went to the affected areas, executing rebels.
He also replaced cinemas with puppet theatres, which apparently are more authentically Turkmen.
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.
The Kurds want to incorporate it into their largely autonomous region, while Arabs and Turkmen oppose any change to its current status, ruled directly from Baghdad.
Days later, a suicide bomber killed at least 23 people at a Shia mosque in the nearby village of Tuz Khurmato, mainly populated by ethnic Turkmen.
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.
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