Iraq’s Turkomen: “We should have got two ministries – leading government post.”

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A leading member in Iraq’s Turkomen Front, Nermin al-Mufti, has said on Wednesday that “the Front had hoped that the Turkomen would get two cabinet ministries and a leading post in the new government, formed by Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki.” “The Turkomen Front had hoped to get two cabinet posts, a service ministry and a state ministry, along with a leading post in the new government, because the ‘points system’ had granted them a Youth Ministry and a state ministry,” Mufti told IraqiNews.com news agency. She said that “the Iraqi President had promised to gant the post of the Third Vice-President to the Turkomen Nationality, and we  hope that his promise be achieved, and the post be the share of the Turkomen Front.” “The Turkomen Front had been active on the political arena since 1995, and had proven its efficiency, along with having 6 Legislatures in the Iraqi Parliament..And the important thing is that we had strongly entered the political process, with the approval of all the political parties,” Mutfi said. On his part, the Torkoman Legislature in al-Iraqiya Coalition, Arshad al-Salehi, told IraqiNews.com news agency that “President Jalal Talabani had promised the Turkomen MPs on 28/11/2010 to support our demands, related to granting us a leading post, such as the post of vice-president or deputy prime-minister.” “President Talabani had said that a special law must be issued by the Iraqi Parliament in this respect, and I (Talabani) will support you when it will be presented to the Parliament, being the first defender of the Turkomen, to get a leading post, because they had suffered a lot, and more than others,” Salehi stressed. Kirkuk, a multinational city, home for Arabs, Kurds, Turkomen, Chaldio-Assyrian Christians, is 280 kms to the north of Baghdad. SKH 383