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Three groups struggle for control over
Kurdish Oil-Rich Kirkuk
15.6.2006
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Kirkuk, Kurdistan-Iraq, -- Kurds, Turkmen and
Arabs are competing for control over Kirkuk, Iraq's
third largest city. Turkey recently sent thousands
of troops to its border with Iraqi Kurdistan,
amassing what is the largest buildup of Turkish
soldiers along the Kurdistan Iraqi border since
1999. We speak with John Tirman, Executive Director
of MIT's Center for International Studies.
We turn now to Iraq. Middle East analyst Juan Cole
recently wrote that there are now four distinct wars
being simultaneously fought in Iraq: a Sunni Arab
guerrilla war to expel US troops from the Sunni
heartland; a militant Shiite guerrilla war to expel
the British from the south; a civil war between the
Sunni and Shiites; and a Kurdish war against Arabs
and Turkmen over the oil-rich Kurdish city of Kirkuk
in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq).
Today we are going to look at the war being waged
over Kirkuk where Kurds, Turkmen and Arabs are
competing over control of Iraq's third largest city.
On Tuesday, at least 24 Iraqis were killed in the
city in a series of seven bomb attacks. |
Kurdistan oil fields in Kirkuk
Photo: AFP |
In April, hundreds of Shiite militia men were
deployed to Kirkuk, vowing to fight attempts by
Kurds to take control of the city.
Meanwhile Turkey has recently sent thousands of
troops to its border with Iraqi Kurdistan amassing
what is the largest buildup of Turkish soldiers
along the Iraq border since 1999.
John Tirman. Executive Director of MIT's Center
for International Studies.
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