Former Cyrillic spelling used in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
The written language of the Iraqi Turkmen is based on Istanbul Turkish using the modern Turkish alphabet.
Professor Christiane Bulut has argued that publications from Azerbaijan often use expressions such as "Azerbaijani (dialects) of Iraq" or "South Azerbaijani" to describe Iraqi Turkmen dialects "with political implications"; however, in Turcological literature, closely related dialects in Turkey and Iraq are generally referred to as "eastern Anatolian" or "Iraq-Turkic/-Turkman" dialects, respectively.[1]
Bulut, Christiane (2018b), "The Turkic varieties of Iran", chū Haig, Geoffrey; Khan, Geoffrey, The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective, Walter de Gruyter, p.398, ISBN978-3-11-042168-2
Mokari, Payam Ghaffarvand; Werner, Stefan (2017). "Azerbaijani". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 47 (2): 207. doi:10.1017/S0025100317000184.