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Massoud Barzani: Ankara's stance on Kirkuk
not important to us 23.1.2007 |
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January 23, 2007
The President of Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous
region and leader Kurdistan Democratic Party (IKDP),
Massoud Barzani, has asserted that Turkey is
following an "aggressive policy" in terms of its
stance on the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Kirkuk.
While noting that despite its Kurdish majority,
Kirkuk would represent symbolically the brotherhood
of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmeni living in Iraq.
Barzani also added: "This stance of Turkey's is not
important for us. These outburts are just election
propaganda, aimed at domestic policy.
There is absolutely no side of this propaganda which
is acceptable to us. We do not take it seriously."
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Massoud Barzani, President of Kurdistan
Region in Iraq |
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Kirkuk is just outside the borders of the largely
autonomous Kurdistan region (Iraq) and it is not under the full
control of Kurdistan Regional Government
administration.
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein 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.
A referendum is to be held in late 2007 to decide
whether the oil-rich Kurdish province should be
annexed to the safe autonomous Kurdistan region
in Iraq's north.
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