"Iraq: Turkey Keeps Nervous Eye On Kirkuk
By Sumedha Senanayake
Iraq -- Iraqi Turkmen chant slogans as they protest against federalism, insisting on the Iraqi Identity of the ethnically mixed city, during demonstration in Kirkuk, 11Oct2006
January 22, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Turkish officials have recently voiced their concerns over the fate of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk. Turkey fears that if the 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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