"Top US senator: Kirkuk oil may boost 'greater Kurdistan' effort
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Barzani's US adviser praises Ankara's policy on Iraqi Kurds as 'realistic and forward-looking'
WASHINGTON - TDN Defense Desk
Richard Lugar, influential chairman of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, said that gaining the control of vast oil assets near northern Iraq's key city of Kirkuk might prompt Kurds to seek to create a 'greater Kurdistan' in the Middle East, including Turkey's Kurdish population."
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