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Iraq's President can be summoned by
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March
13, 2011
BAGHDAD,
— The Legislature from the Kurdistan Coalition,
Mahmoud Othman, has said on Sunday that the Iraqi
President could be “summoned” by the Parliament if
he had violated the Constitution, saying that
President Jalal Talabani’s statement about Kirkuk
“wasn’t a violation of the Constitution.”
“President Jalal Talabani can be summoned by the
Parliament if he violated the Constitution,” Othman
told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, saying “that when
Talabani said that Kirkuk was the ‘heart of
Kurdistan,’ he expressed his viewpoint, being the
chairman of a party..So, there is no need to gather
signatures to summon him by the Parliament.”
The Legislature for al-Iraqiya Coalition, Wihda al-Jumeily,
had said on Saturday that a number of Parliament
members had began collecting signatures to summon
President Jalal Talabani by the Parliament, in the
background of his statement that described Kirkuk as
“Kurdistan’s Jerusalem.”
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Iraqi Kurdish MP, Mahmoud Othman, says Talabani can
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Othman, on his part, said: “the statement of the
President towards Kirkuk had been entirely natural,
as firstly, he was speaking in a festival of his
party, being the Chairman of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK), the party that had always described
Kirkuk as the “Jerusalem of the Kurds.”
“Even the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), repeats
that Kirkuk is the “Heart of the Kurds,” Othman
said, adding that “each party has its own mottos,
being natural issues and not constitutional
violations.”
President Jalal Talabani had said in a speech on the
occasion of the anniversary of the Kurdish 1991
uprising in Sulaimaniyah city against Iraq’s former
ruling Baath regime,www.ekurd.netthat
Kirkuk was the “Jerusalem of Kurdistan,” calling on
the Kurds to conclude a strategic Kurdish-Turkoman
Coalition, to liberate the city from what he
described as “terrorists and neo-occupiers.”
The oil-rich province of Kirkuk
is one of the most disputed areas by the Kurdistan
regional government and the Iraqi government in
Baghdad.
The Kurds are seeking to integrate the province into
the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region clamming it to
be historically a Kurdish city, 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.
Kurds have a strong cultural and emotional
attachment to Kirkuk, which they call "the Kurdish
Jerusalem." Kurds see it as the rightful and
perfect capital of an autonomous Kurdistan state.
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution is related to
the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk city
and other disputed areas through having back its
Kurdish inhabitants and repatriating the Arabs
relocated in the city during the former regime’s
time to their original provinces in central and
southern Iraq.
The article also calls for conducting a census to be
followed by a referendum to let the inhabitants
decide whether they would like Kirkuk to be annexed
to the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region or having
it as an independent province.
The former regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
had 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.
The last ethnic-breakdown census in Iraq was
conducted in 1957, well before Saddam began his
program to move Arabs to Kirkuk. That count showed
178,000 Kurds, 48,000 Turkomen, 43,000 Arabs and
10,000 Assyrian-Chaldean Christians living in the
city.
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