Debates Over Autonomy Resurface in Northern Iraq: Calls for a Nineveh Plains Province Rekindled Amid Turkmen Push - Syriac Press

Debates Over Autonomy Resurface in Northern Iraq: Calls for a Nineveh Plains Province Rekindled Amid Turkmen Push - Syriac Press

MOSUL/NINEVEH, Iraq – A renewed political push by Iraq’s Turkmen community to designate the district of Tal Afar as a separate province has reignited long-standing demands from the country’s Christian minorities for autonomous status in the Nineveh Plain. While Turkmen leaders have described their request as a step toward equitable representation, the proposal has drawn sharp criticism from Iraq’s major Sunni parties—and rekindled a broader deba…