 Promoted by the KDP as the "true voice" of the Iraqi Turkmen, the Turkmen National Association has a pro-Kurdistani stance and has effectively weakened the ITF as the sole representative voice of the Iraqi Turkmen.Beginning in 2003, there were riots between Kurds and Turkmen in Kirkuk, a city that Turkmen views as historically theirs.According to United Nations reports, the KRG and Peshmerga are "illegaily policing Kirkurk, abducting Turkmen and Arabs and subjecting them to torture".