Iraqi Turkmen Front

Iraqi Turkmen Front
Irak Türkmen Cephesi
الجبهة التركمانية العراقية
بەرەری تورکمانیی عێراق
Leader Sadettin Ergeç
Founded 1995 in Arbil, Iraq
Ideology Turkmen interests
Official colours Blue
Seats in the Kurdistan Parliament:
1 / 111
Website
http://www.kerkuk.net/
Politics of Iraq
Political parties
Elections

The Iraqi Turkmen Front (Turkish: Irak Türkmen Cephesi, Arabic: الجبهة التركمانية العراقي‎) is a political movement founded in 1995 which seeks to represent the Turkmen people of Iraq. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the ITF has contested control of Kirkuk and other areas of northern Iraq.

The ITF is a coalition of the following political parties:

In the Iraqi legislative election, December 2005, the ITF list (#630) polled 76,434 votes, or 0.7% nationwide, according to the uncertified published results. The overwhelming majority of those votes were cast in Kirkuk Province, where the ITF won more than 10% of the total. Most of the rest of the ITF's votes were in Salah ad Din province. According to the full official results of that election, the ITF is entitled to only one seat in the permanent National Assembly.

In the aftermath of the first Iraqi parliamentary election in 2005, the ITF lodged a number of formal complaints to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq alleging vote fraud on the part of the Kurdish parties and protesting the Commission's decision to allow Kurdish internally displaced persons and refugees to vote in the places from which they had been expelled under Saddam Hussein. In the election, they received just over 90,000 votes, or 1.1% of votes cast, earning them three seats in the trasitional National Assembly of Iraq.

In the 2009 Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, the ITF polled just 7,077 votes, or 0.38% of the popular vote, winning 1 seat.

In the 2010 Iraqi national elections, the ITF candidate in the Turkmen stronghold of Kirkuk, Arshad al-Salihi, won 59,732 votes as a part of Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya List. This was second only to Khalid Shwani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, who won 68,522 votes.