kirkuk in English

noun
1
an industrial city in northern Iraq, center of the oil industry in that region; population 600,000 (est. 2003).

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1. You know, a car bomb went off this morning in Kirkuk

2. Kurds Fear ‘Arabization’ of Iraq’s Kirkuk Sunday, 5 November, 2017 - 10:30 A member of Iraqi security forces takes down the Kurdish flag in Kirkuk, Iraq.

3. In 1927, huge oil fields were discovered near Kirkuk and brought economic improvement.

4. Another insurgent violence in Iraq has been blamed for more and injuries in Baghdad and Kirkuk.

5. On the northern front, the Iraqis attempted to establish a strong defensive position opposite Suleimaniya to protect the Iraqi Kirkuk oil complex.

6. According to Human Right Watch, from the 1991 Gulf War until 2003, the former Iraqi government systematically expelled an estimated 120,000 Kurds and some Turkmen and Assyrians from Kirkuk and other towns and villages in this oil-rich region.Since the fall of Saddam's regime in 2003, thousands of displaced Kurdish families and others returned to Kirkuk and other Arabicized regions to reclaim

7. The Arabization process restarted after October 16, 2017, with the transformation of ration cards, identification cards, and issuing premiered residency for people of Diyala, Mosul, Salahuddin provinces to move to Kirkuk

8. The Kurds in the north cleverly and adeptly used the window of opportunity that opened before them to seize de facto independence, though the key question of control over the northern city of Kirkuk remains a ticking time bomb.