Word: flashoint
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...Iraqi constitution recognizes the Kurds' de facto autonomy in northern Iraq, allowing them to keep the revenues from any new oil fields and to maintain their own armed forces. But the status of the oil rich northern city of Kirkuk remains a flashoint, because it is claimed not only by Kurds and Arabs, but also by the Turkmen minority - less than 5 percent of the population, but which carries the backing of Turkey, which is vehemently opposed to an independent Kurdish entity...
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