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Kirkuk votes to take part in Kurdish independence poll
[Al Jazeera] Councillors in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk have voted to take part in next month's Kurdish independence referendum, in a session, however, that was boycotted by Turkmen and Arab members.The central government in Baghdad is strongly opposed to Iraqi Kurdistan's planned September 25 referendum, which is non-binding but could lead to independence. Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... an ethically-mixed oil-rich province is not part of the Kurdistan region, but has a large Kurdish population. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-30 |
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