"Despite Ankara's worries, US reasserts support for upcoming Kirkuk referendum
Though Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has commented sharply over the past week on the changing demographics of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, even calling for the referendum scheduled to take place there to be postponed, US authorities have indicated that there is no support in Washington, DC for such postponement. "
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