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Modern telephone network between Kirkuk
and Kurdistan cities
26.3.2007 |
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Linking Kirkuk to Kurdistan cities by a modern
telephone network.
Head of the General Telecommunications
Department in Kurdish city of Kirkuk said that the
cadres started to implement a project to link the
city with the provinces of Kurdistan autonomous
region by a sophisticated telephone network which is
the first of its kind in the whole northern regions.
March 26, 2007
Kirkuk, Iraq-Kurdistan region border, -- Chief
Engineer, Adel Abdullah, said: "a few days ago the
engineering and technical cadres in the General
Telecommunications Department in Kirkuk began
working to link it to the provinces of Kurdistan by
a modern telephone network".
He explained that the link will be through "an
optical cable extends from Kirkuk to Sulaimaniyah",
adding that this line "will link the cities of the
northern provinces to Kurdistan cities, and then
link all Iraqi governorates by an advanced optical
communication network that will contribute to the
provision of quick telecommunications service to
citizens in the country".
Abdullah added, "the new service will contribute in
the expansion of the number of telephone exchanges
in the city of Kirkuk, through the introduction of
new departments ... Thus increasing the number of
telephone lines that will be available to citizens".
In Kirkuk lives a Kurdish majority demanding the
annexation of the city to the three current
provinces of Kurdistan region (Sulaimaniyah, Erbil
and Dohuk), and the deportation of the Kurdish
population who were resided in Kirkuk by the former
Iraqi regime.
While the Arabs and Turkomans who live in the city
are rejecting this orientation, and demanding to
maintain the current status, which makes Kirkuk a
symbol of coexistence between the various
nationalities in Iraq.
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.
Kirkuk city is a Kurdistani city and it lies just
south border of the Kurdistan autonomous region and
it is not under the full control of Kurdistan
Regional Government administration, its population
is a mix of majority Kurds and minority of Arabs,
Turkmen.
Based on Iraq's Constitution a referendum is to be
held in late 2007 to decide whether the oil-rich
Kurdish province should be annexed to the safe
semiautonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.
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