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	Kirkuk - Iraq - Azeri / Turkman - Azerb.com
		Kirkuk has a population of over 600.000 and is the capital of the Al-Tamin governorate (muhafazah).
		Until 1974 the city was the capital of the Kirkuk governorate, which was reduced to a quarter of its original size by the Baghdad government, as a way of controlling the influence of the Azeri speaking population.
		Today Kirkuk is at the centre of one of the richest oil producing areas in the middle east, and pipelines connect it to the Mediterranean ports of Tripoli in Lebanon and Yumurtalik in Turkey.
	www.travel-images.com /az-kirkuk.html (1235 words)

	Kirkuk Summary
		Kirkuk is strategically located as an entry to one of the few passes through the rugged Zagros Mountains and, hence, to the Iranian plateau.
		The Kirkuk region lies between the Zagros Mountains to the north-east, the Zab River and the Tigris River to the west, the Hamrin Mountains (Arabic: جبل حمرين‎) to the south, and the Sirwan (Diyala) River to the south-east.
		Apart from their historical claim for Kirkuk, the Kurds invoke Article 58 of the Administration for the state of Iraq for the transitional period, also known as Administrative Law of March 8, 2004 which is considered the interim constitution of Iraq by the now-dissolved Iraqi Governing Council.
	www.bookrags.com /Kirkuk (3517 words)

	The Challenge in Iraq's Other Cities: Kirkuk - Council on Foreign Relations
		Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed city of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen, among them Muslims and Christians, is in the throes of a struggle over its future status.
		The Iraqi constitution mandates a citywide referendum on the status of Kirkuk by December 2007, a poll predicted to favor the Kurds.
		Kirkuk is home to one of the world's largest oil fields, which began production in the 1930s and by some estimates holds as much as 10 billion barrels (though some project this figure is much lower because of infrastructure damage due to past UN sanctions).
	www.cfr.org /publication/11036/challenge_in_iraqs_other_cities.html (1719 words)

	Kirkuk - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kirkuk is a market for the region's produce, including cereals, olives, fruits, and cotton.
		Kirkuk is built on a mound containing the remains of a settlement dating back to 3000 BC Kirkuk's population is mix of Turkomans, Kurds, and Arabs; forced resettlement of many Kurds in the late 20th cent.
		Ethnic tensions in Kirkuk dangerously high, raising fears of civil war.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-kirkuk.html (326 words)

	The New Yorker : fact : content
		Kirkuk sits near the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, not far from the southern border of Kurdistan, an autonomous region that broke free of Baathist control in 1991.
		Kirkuk is a dense, cosmopolitan city along a trade route between Constantinople and Persia, and its layers of successive civilizations had nothing to do with Arab glory.
		Kirkuk has suffered inordinately from bad ideas, and the old ones have engendered some that are new: the idea that the historical clock can be turned back forty years, or that Iraq can be carved up among its Sunni, Shia, and Kurds without enormous bloodshed and countless individual tragedies.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/041004fa_fact (9492 words)

	Kirkuk
		Kirkuk is the largest city in one of Iraq's most important oil producing areas.
		Kirkuk's population is a mixture of Kurdish, Assyrian, Turkomen and Arab origin.
		Kirkuk is an old city, with ruins as old as 3,000 years.
	i-cias.com /e.o/kirkuk.htm (230 words)

	Kirkuk, Oil And The Dance Of Death \| TPMCafe
		Kirkuk is the prize that the Sunnis lost, the Kurds want, and the Shia will not give.
		The Kurds consider Kirkuk to be the capital of a greater Kurdistan spanning from Turkey to Iran.
		"Kirkuk is Kurdistan; it does not belong to the Arabs," Hamid Afandi, the minister of Peshmerga for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, one of the two major Kurdish groups, said.
	www.tpmcafe.com /node/29268 (1049 words)

	Who Owns Kirkuk? The Kurdish Case - Middle East Quarterly
		In the late Ottoman period, Kirkuk was the administrative center of the vilayet (province) of Sharazur.
		In 1921, the British estimated the population of the Kirkuk region to be 75,000 Kurds, 35,000 Turkomans, 10,000 Arabs, 1,400 Jews, and 600 Chaldeans.
		Other Arabs settled in Kirkuk as civil servants or serving as officers and soldiers in the Second Division of the Iraqi army, most of which was stationed in Kirkuk.
	www.meforum.org /article/1075 (2008 words)

	Middle East Online
		KIRKUK, Iraq - A US military post in the northern city of Kirkuk was hit by five Katyusha rockets late Tuesday, sparking retaliatory US shell fire, Iraqi police reported, without saying if there were any casualties.
		They said a school in Kirkuk was also hit by a mortar Tuesday, and a bomb exploded in front of a dry cleaners used by the US forces.
		Kirkuk, 225 kilometres (140 miles) north of Baghdad, has become an active front in the war between the US military and insurgents since the start of the month, where violence previously had focused further south in the region around Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=7575 (414 words)

	Kurds returning to Kirkuk - Greenwich Time
		KIRKUK, Iraq -- Behind a row of cinder block houses with corrugated tin roofs, Sazgar Mahmoud's six children play in a puddle of sewage and trash.
		Kirkuk is unsafe and economically starved compared to the Kurdish region, so Hama decided to stay put in Sulaimaniyah.
		Kurds view Kirkuk as the ancient seat of Kurdistan and believe it should be the capital of their region in a newly formed Iraqi federation.
	www.greenwichtime.com /news/nationworld/ny-wokirk264126868jan27,0,4556647.story?coll=sns-newsnation-headlines (1265 words)

	Asia Times
		Kirkuk is an Iraqi city under the current control of the Iraqi government and one to which both Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds have arguable claim.
		Turkey has based its claims to Kirkuk on "historical" and "ethnic" grounds: After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of World War I, the division of its vast territory in the Middle East by Britain and France led to an intentional "historical injustice".
		According to the Turks, Kirkuk was part of Turkey proper, but the two victorious European powers intentionally included Kirkuk in the newly-created Iraq in order to deny Turkey, a losing power of World Ware I, access to fuel to create a major handicap for its economy.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/DL21Ak01.html (1021 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Kirkuk's curse
		Kirkuk -- a city floating on a river of oil and wealth and a potential cornerstone of a future "Kurdish state" -- is not much to look at these days.
		Last week the streets of Kirkuk continued to be the scene of demonstrations organised by proponents of Kurdish independence who threatened to boycott the national elections- due in January 2005- if the city was not annexed to Kurdistan Iraq.
		Kirkuk is putting on an air of calm and composure in Ramadan, but one can feel the underlying tension.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/715/re3.htm (1053 words)

	Defense Tech: The Kirkuk Question
		So valuable is Kirkuk that Saddam launched a program in the 1980s called Enfal to shift the city's demographics in favor of the regime by forcibly removing the city's Kurds and paying Arabs to settle in their places.
		Now, with Kirkuk just outside the de facto border of Kurdistan, and with the Kurdish region richer and more powerful than the rest of the country, the Kurdistan Regional Government and its lackeys in Baghdad are plotting to redraw Kurdistan's unofficial but very real borders to incorporate Kirkuk.
		KRG assembly speaker Adnan Mufti told me the other day that the Kirkuk question is his number one concern.
	www.defensetech.org /archives/002058.html (782 words)

	Kuna site\|Story page\|Blasts in Kirkuk harvest 13 Iraqi lives ...10/19/2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Speaking to Kuwait News Agency, Kirkuk's provincial police chief Brigadier Sarhad Qader said the first blast targeted the headquarters of the first legion for infrastructure leading to the death of two soldiers and the injury of four others.
		Also, he said a number of gunmen were killed and arrested during a raid against a hideout in one of Kirkuk's southern suburbs, believing that the targeted group played a role in recent terrorist attacks in the city.
		In another development, a military source in Mosul said Iraqi army and police in collaboration with the MNF arrested about 80 persons suspected for their involvement in a blast that killed seven Iraqis and injured 20 others, mostly policemen, when a suicide bomber slammed into a police station with a booby-trapped truck.
	www.kuna.net.kw /Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=914642 (273 words)

	Kirkuk Fearful of Future - by Mohammed Salih
		Many Kurds say Kirkuk is really a Kurdish province, and that large numbers of ethnic Arabs were settled there by the Saddam regime – a move that Article 140 could undo.
		Turkey also claims historical rights in Kirkuk, on the grounds that the city was ruled by Ottoman Turks for centuries until the creation of the modern state of Iraq in the 1920s.
		Amid all these tensions, residents resent remarks that Kirkuk may become the "flashpoint" for an all-out civil war in the country.
	www.antiwar.com /ips/salih.php?articleid=9778 (713 words)

	Arab Leader Shot Dead in Iraq City of Kirkuk
		KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) -- Gunmen have shot dead a former member of Kirkuk's city council, Iraqi police said on Saturday, the latest killing of a local official in a city where tensions between Kurds and Arabs run high.
		Jibouri was said to have developed good ties with Kurdish officials on the council, which Kirkuk's deputy mayor suggested might have been a reason for the killing.
		There are fears any explosion of tensions in Kirkuk could provide a spark for a larger ethnic conflict in the country, but so far local animosities have largely been held in check.
	www.aina.org /news/20050528115623.htm (248 words)

	The New York Times > International > Middle East > Kurds' Return to City Shakes Politics in Iraq
		But with the oil in Kirkuk at stake, the Kurdish and Shiite parties have been unable to agree on how to carry out Article 58 of the interim constitution, which provides vague guidelines for settling the property disputes here.
		In the Kirkuk neighborhood of Qadisiya, from which Kurds were evicted in large numbers, a group of Arab men said on a recent afternoon that the city would remain peaceful - as long as no one tried to seize their homes.
		A picture caption yesterday with the continuation of a front-page article about the tensions in the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk between Arabs and returning Kurds, who were evicted during the rule of Saddam Hussein, misspelled the surname of a Kurdish woman shown passing a drinking glass during dinner preparations in a refugee camp.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/03/14/international/middleeast/14kurds.html?ei=5090&en=08cdeff4cd9eb2b3&ex=1268456400&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=print&position= (1458 words)

	Kirkuk, a mirror of Iraq's schisms \| csmonitor.com
		Kirkuk epitomizes the difficulties of toppling President Saddam Hussein and repairing his regime's excesses.
		Kirkuk is home to nearly a million people of several ethnicities and religions, many of whom have suffered grievously under the rule of Hussein's Baath Party.
		Kirkuk is located in one of the richest oil fields in Iraq, making it a temptation for Iraq's neighbors.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0304/p06s01-woiq.html (1375 words)

	Iraq's election wild card: Kirkuk \| csmonitor.com
		KIRKUK, IRAQ – Six months ago, Asso Hama Amin went to the official government storefront for picking up UN food rations and switched his registration card - which determines where he can vote - from Sulaymaniyah to Kirkuk, the city where he was born.
		Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that Saddam Hussein "Arabized" through forced migration, is on the Iraqi side of the line separating the Kurdistan Regional Government from the rest of Iraq.
		Throughout the Kurdish neighborhoods of Kirkuk, a picture hangs at checkpoints, in offices, and even illuminated on the sides of buildings: a portly politician waving a piece paper at a table full of other bureaucrats.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1207/p06s01-woiq.html (1233 words)

	Kirkuk a Key Election Issue for Kurds
		Kirkuk, which today has Kurdish, Turkoman and Arab residents who belong to a multiplicity of religions, remains a central issue for Kurds.
		Since Saddam Hussein's regime was overthrown, Kirkuk residents and Kurds in other cities and regions have closely monitored the government's initiatives moves on the Kirkuk question, and it is now one of the key issues facing National Assembly members, who will hold seats for four years.
		Rizgar Ali, Kirkuk provincial council president and a leading member on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, said the Kurdistan Alliance pushed for Arabs in Kirkuk to vote separately and for their ballots to be counted towards candidates from the areas they originally came from.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=icr&s=f&o=258649&apc_state=henh (807 words)

	Series of attacks kills 24 in Kirkuk - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There was no indication who was behind the bombings in Kirkuk, a city 180 miles north of Baghdad that lies in the center of Iraq's vast northern oil fields and is the subject of rival claims by the region's Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen.
		In the biggest bombing, a gunman in the truck also fired on civilians before the vehicle exploded near Kirkuk's criminal court and the headquarters of the two main Kurdish political parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, police said.
		Kurds now want to incorporate Kirkuk into their autonomous region, an idea that has been caught up the heated debate over the proposal to transform Iraq into a federate state.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2006-09-17-iraq-violence_x.htm (1041 words)

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