Increase in the pressure on the Turks
Baas Party increased the pressure on the Turks after 1971 on the excuse of boycott. In 1972, they demanded that the public banks should not give credit to Turkish businessmen. The Turkish tradesmen and merchants noticed that only the people who were not Turks could buy goods from the state firms. The Turks were not allowed to work in the official buildings. In 1972, among 10.000 people working in Kerkük Petrol Company, only the 500 of them were Turks. Even if the Turks graduated from the university, they were not appointed to the areas where the Turks lived. Instead, they were appointed to the areas such as Bosnia and Baghdad where especially the Arabs lived. The posts in Turkish areas were given to the Arabs and the Kurds. Farmers, in the Turkmen villages, in Musul, were under pressure. Cafer Rıza Arafat, a Turkmen farmer in a village known as Selamiye, was executed on 1st December 1972.