"Turkey keeps nervous eye on Kirkuk
By Sumedha Senanayake
Turkish officials have recently voiced their concerns over the fate of the oil-rich Iraqi province of Kirkuk. Turkey fears that if Iraqi Kurds annex Kirkuk into their autonomous region, they will eventually want to carve out an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq and thus stoke separatist desires in Turkey's own sizable Kurdish population. "
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