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Turkman to rejoin Kirkuk province council
18.1.2008
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January 18 2008
Kirkuk, Iraq's border with Kurdistan region,
-- Political parties in Kirkuk Province seek
to enhance previous agreements between the Arab bloc
and other parties in order to allow for Turkman
blocs to return to the provincial council which they
boycotted for more than a year.
For its part, Turkman’s front renewed its call to
turn Kirkuk into an independent region that is
managed according to a joint administration.
In a related issue, head of Huwayja District Council
in Kirkuk Province, Hussein Ali Saleh, affirmed that
residents in the region refuse completely to have
Kurdish forces in their area, explaining that
Huwayja residents are able to fill the security gap
in their region and do not need additional forces.
For his part, Deputy Peshmerga Ministry, Brigadier
Jibar Yawer, denied Kurdistan regional government’s
plan or intention to send forces to the small Arab
regions of Kirkuk and Mosul.
“Dependency is the right of every nation, as well as
the Kurds. But the Kurdish politicians have been
wise enough to deal with the situation according to
the reality surrounding them.www.ekurd.net
If and when the time is
there for the Kurds to be independent, I don’t think
the Kurdish leaders can stand against it. If you ask
any Kurd on the street if you want to be
independent, the answer without any hesitation will
say yes,” KRG government spokesman Safeen Dizayee
said in a December statement.
Kirkuk city is a
Kurdish city
and it lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region, the population is a mix of
majority Kurds and minority of Arabs, Christians and
Turkmen. lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein forced
over 250,000 Kurdish residents to give up their
homes to Arabs in the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city
and the region's oil industry.
Under article 140 of Iraq’s constitution a
referendum must be held on whether the city secedes
to control of the Kurdistan region al government KRG.
A referendum, provided for in the Iraqi
constitution, was scheduled to be held by the end of
the past year on including the city into the
Kurdistan region,www.ekurd.net
but the UN mediated to
extend its time to July 2008.
The Kurdish lawmaker pointed out "the regions'
residents have the right to decide their condition
through a referendum."
"There are several Turkmen leaders who support the
implementation of article 140," he noted.
alsumaria tv | Agencies
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