Al-Bayati

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| name = Bayati

| local name = البياتي

| type = Iraqi Turkmen tribe

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| ethnicity = Iraqi Turkmen

| nisba = al-Bayati

| location = {{flagcountry|Iraq}}

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| parent_tribe = Tayy (partially)

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| language = *Turkmen

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| religion = Sunni Islam

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Al-Bayati ({{langx|ar|البياتي|al-Bayātī}}) is a surname. It is connected to the Iraqi al-Bayat tribe.

The ancestry and ethnicity of the al-Bayat tribe is contentious. The tribe's ancestry is often linked to the Oghuz Turkic Bayat tribe {{Cite web|date=2019-05-28|title=مدينة سليمان بيك في محافظة صلاح الدين|url=https://read.opensooq.com/مدينة-سليمان-بيك-في-محافظة-صلاح-الدين/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=اقرأ - السوق المفتوح|language=ar}} and its ethnicity described as Iraqi Turkmen or Turkish.{{cite book |last1=Eroglu |first1=Cengiz |last2=Babucoglu |first2=Murat |last3=Ozdil |first3=Orhan |title=Mosul in the Ottoman Vilâyet Salnâmes |date=2012 |publisher=ORSAM |location=Ankara |page=201 |url=https://orsam.org.tr/d_hbanaliz/5eng_1.pdf |access-date=7 May 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Doerfler |first1=G. |title=BAYĀT |url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bayat-an-important-turkish-tribe |website=Iranica Online |access-date=7 May 2024}}{{cite book |last1=Al-Hirmizi |first1=Arshad |title=The Turkmen Reality in Iraq |date=2005 |publisher=Kirkuk Foundation |location=Kirkuk |pages=Turkmen: 157, 159, 164, 168, 169, 171, 172; Arabic: 164, 167; Kurdish: 167 |url=https://www.turkmen.nl/1A_Others/EH2_english.pdf |access-date=7 May 2024}} Other sources however describe it as an Arab tribe or mixed Arab and Kurdish tribe of the Tayy tribal confederacy. The deceased Sheikh Hussein Aloush was ethnically Turkmen.{{cite news |last1=Staff member |title=Turkmen tribal leader killed by suspected drone in Sulaimani’s Kifri |url=https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/31032024 |access-date=7 May 2024 |agency=Rûdaw |date=31 March 2024}} Members of the tribe generally speak Iraqi Arabic and Iraqi Turkmen.{{Cite web |title=معلومات هامة عن قبيلة البيات |url=http://www.aliraqtimes.com/ar/print/71445.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.aliraqtimes.com}}