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Kirkuk Summary
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(2002 est. pop. 729,000). Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq, has been occupied for thousands of years, from at least the third millennium BCE. The city is bounded by the Little Zab River to the northwest, the Jabal Hamrin to the southwest, the Diyala...
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Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk; Arabic: كركوك, Kirkūk; Ottoman Turkish: کرکوک, Kurdish: كه‌ركووك, Kerkûk; Syriac: ܐܪܦܗܐ, Arrapha; Persian: کرکوک is a city in northern Iraq and capital of Kirkuk Governorate. The...


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Car bombings strike Kirkuk, killing 2
2/3/2007: 381 words, approx. 1 pages
A series of car bombs struck the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk in a two-hour span on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding 30, police said.The explosions struck various parts of the ethnically mixed city, which has seen an recent increase in violence...
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Iraqi parliament probes Kirkuk vote
11/17/2007: 502 words, approx. 2 pages
Iraq's parliament on Saturday ordered an inquiry into the delay of a referendum over whether the oil-rich city of Kirkuk will join the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the north.The Iraqi constitution requires that a referendum on the future status of the city be held by...
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Turkey wants Kirkuk referendum delayed
2/20/2007: 362 words, approx. 1 pages
Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday urged one of Iraq's two vice presidents to delay a referendum on the future of Kirkuk, fearing Iraqi Kurdish groups could seize control of the northern, oil-rich city.Turkey, which has been trying to quell a Kurdish insurgency for more than...
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Iraqi Kurd warns against Kirkuk strife
1/7/2008: 405 words, approx. 1 pages
Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister warned Monday that failure to resolve the fate of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk could result in more strife and accused people within the government of blocking a solution."We have a choice," Barham Saleh told The Associated Press. "We can...
 


 

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