Turkey And The Lost Province
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August 11, 2012: Iraq is very angry at Turkey because the Turkish foreign minister visited the disputed (between the autonomous Kurds of northern Iraq) city of Kirkuk recently. The Kurds (22 percent Iraqis) want to gain control of Kirkuk and nearby oil fields and become more independent of Arab Iraq. The visit by the Turkish foreign minister to Kirkuk was not approved by the Arab controlled Iraqi government and the Iraqis see this as another example of Turkey supporting the partition of Iraq.
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