Yankjah

Yankjah (Arabic ينكجة) is a town in the Tooz District of Salah ad Din Governorate, near the border with Kirkuk Governorate, in northern Iraq, about 100 km from the Iranian border. It has a population of 25,000,[1] mainly from Iraq's Sunni Turkoman ethnic minority.

Yankjah along with Sulaiman Bek and Kifri and Jalawla and Saadia and Kirkuk and Tal Afar make up the largest Turkmen cities in Iraq.

References

  1. ↑ "تنظيم 'داعش' ينسحب من ناحية 'ينكجه' العراقية" [ISIS withdraws from the Iraqi Yankjah area]. بوابة الفجر (in Arabic). 2014-09-09. Retrieved 2015-08-22.

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