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    Kirkuk (Arabic: كركوك; Kurdish: کەرکووک, romanized: Kerkûk; Syriac: ܟܪܟܘܟ, romanized: Kerkouk; Turkish: Kerkük) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital...
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    Kirkuk Governorate (Arabic: محافظة كركوك, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat Karkūk; Kurdish: پارێزگای کەرکووک, romanized: Parêzgeha Kerkûkê/Parêzgayi Kerkûk; Turkish:...
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    based in Kirkuk. On 21 March 2004, he started broadcasting locally on Kirkuk TV. Kirkuk Sports Channel and Kirkuk FM became part of Kirkuk Channel. On...
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    Gavurbağı, Kirkuk. The Kirkuk massacre of 1959 came about due to the Iraqi government allowing the Iraqi Communist Party, which in Kirkuk was largely...
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  • The Battle of Kirkuk may refer to several historical battles over several conflicts: Battle of Kirkuk (1733) during the Ottoman–Persian War (1730–35)...
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    Battle of Kirkuk (2017), part of the 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, was a military deployment by the Iraqi Security Forces to retake Kirkuk Governorate...
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  • Kirkuk may refer to: Kirkuk Governorate - a region within Iraq Kirkuk District - a district within Kirkuk Governorate Kirkuk - a city within Kirkuk District...
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    The Kirkuk massacre of 1924 was a massacre towards the people of Kirkuk by the Assyrian Levies on May 4, 1924 after the Assyrian Levies were attacked...
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    The Kirkuk International Airport (IATA: KIK, ICAO: ORKK) is an airport located in Kirkuk, Iraq. The airport officially opened in 20th October, 2022 for...
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    The University of Kirkuk (Arabic: جامعة كركوك) is an Iraqi university established in 2003 in Kirkuk, Iraq. The University of Kirkuk included eight faculties/colleges...
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    and Kirkuk. Its capital was Kirkuk, it was made up of 6 districts, 17 subdistricts and 1,712 Villages. The largest town in the Sanjak was Kirkuk with...
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  • Kirkuk Field is an oilfield in Kirkuk, Iraq. It was discovered by the Turkish Petroleum Company at Baba Gurgur in 1927. The oilfield was brought into...
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    The Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline is a currently defunct crude oil pipeline from the Kirkuk oil field in Iraq to the Syrian port of Baniyas. The pipeline went...
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  • The 1959 Kirkuk massacre was a massacre of Iraqi Turkmen in Kirkuk, Iraq, which lasted from 14 August to 16 August 1959. The perpetrators were Kurds from...
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    Hussein, the party has contested control of Kirkuk and other areas of northern Iraq, claiming that Kirkuk belongs to the Turkmen people. The ITF claims...
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  • Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise is an academic book by Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield, published in 2009 by the University...
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    constitution declares the city of Kirkuk as the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. However, the KRI does not control Kirkuk, and the Kurdistan Region Parliament...
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    Sumer (سومر) Tell Ubaid (تل عبيد) Ur (أور) Uruk (أوروك) Lubdu Arrapha (now Kirkuk) List of places in Iraq Districts of Iraq "Iraq cities". citypopulation...
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    The Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline (also known as the Iraq–Haifa pipeline or Mediterranean pipeline) was a crude oil pipeline from the oil fields in Kirkuk, located...
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    Kirkuk District (Arabic: قضاء كركوك, Kurdish: قەزای کەرکووک, Turkish: Kerkük ilçesi) is a district in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq. Its administrative center...
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    territories. Kirkuk Governorate, strategically important because of its oil fields, was retaken by Iraqi government forces in the Battle of Kirkuk in 2017...
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    The Qishla of Kirkuk is a historical building in Kirkuk, Iraq. According to the Ottoman Calendars (Arabic: السالنامات العثمانية), the Qishla was built...
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  • The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk (Arabic: ابرشية كركوك الكلدانية) is an archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in communion with the Pope...
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    The Battle of Kirkuk took place in the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq between Iraqi Kurdistan and allies and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
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    Ranya, Sulaimaniya and ultimately the oil center of Kirkuk. Saddam retaliated swiftly, battering Kirkuk with artillery and targeting hospitals in particular...
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    Plains and Kirkuk by providing financial support for Kurds who want to settle in those areas. While Kurdish forces held the city of Kirkuk, Kurdish authorities...
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    2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (category History of Kirkuk Governorate)
    The 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, also known as the Kirkuk crisis, was a conflict in which the Iraqi government retook disputed territories in Iraq which...
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    The Kirkuk Citadel (Arabic: قلعة كركوك, Kurdish: قەڵای کەرکووک, Turkish: Kerkük Kalesi) is in the centre of Kirkuk, Iraq, and is considered to be the oldest...
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  • the Haditha-Kirkuk Railway (Route Number 4) is a railway line of the Iraqi Republic Railways that connects Haditha and Haqlaniyah with Kirkuk via Bayji...
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  • The 2023 unrest in Kirkuk began on August 26 after the transfer of the building in Kirkuk that was used by the forces of the Joint Operational Command...
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