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Turkoman Front to boycott Kirkuk
Referendum 5.10.2006
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Kurdistan Region
(Iraq) October 5, -- The Turkoman Front will
not take pare in the upcoming referendum to decide
the future of Kirkuk.
The Turkoman Front has speculated that the
implementation of Article 140 of the Iraqi
Constitution will be problematic, and has decided
not to participate in the upcoming vote to decide
the future of Kirkuk, according to Saadaddin Arkich,
the head of the Turkoman Front.
"The Front that embraces four Turkoman parties and
has four members at the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad
and one representative at the Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) Regional Parliament in Erbil, will
not take part in the referendum to determine the
future of Kirkuk, since the Front expects the
process of implementing Article 140 to be a
challenging and a problematic task," said Arkich in
a statement to Sharq Al-Awsat paper.
"As the case with the Iraqi permanent Constitution,
the regional Constitution of the KRG has also
understated the rights of Turkomans and has
described the people as a non-major minority in
Iraq," added Arkich.
Arkich has accused the Kurds of importing half a
million Kurds from Iran and Syria to the governorate
of Kirkuk following Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Meanwhile, in response to the statements by Arkich,
Abdul-Salam Barwary, head of the Center for Human
Rights and Democratic Research, said that the
Turkoman Front could take their issues to the Iraqi
parliament through its representatives instead of
standing in the face of the Iraqi Constitution or
constitutional articles.
Abdul-Salam believes that the latest position of
Turkomans in Kirkuk was generated by Ankara's stance
on the
issue.
Kurdish globe net
The former Iraqi president forced about 250,000
Kurdish residents to give up their homes to Arabs in
the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city and the region's
oil industry.
Kirkuk city is not under the full control of
Kurdistan Regional Government administration. A
referendum in 2007 will decide whether the oil-rich
Kurdish province should be annexed to the safe
semiautonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.
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