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...This city is under Kurdish occupation," fumed Mustafa Kamal Yaycili, Kirkuk representative for the Iraqi Turkman Front, the main Turkish political party. His new office was dark, since workers at the power plant walked off the job for fear of the looters, cutting power in the entire city. Yaycili claimed the Kurds were stealing land and personal ID records. "They are changing the demographics of the city. If it keeps going like this there will be violence between us and the Kurds. The Turkish military needs to come here to stop the massacre. The Americans are only protecting...
...tens of thousands of Kurds to return to the city after having been driven out under Saddam's policy of "forced Arabization," a program of ethnic cleansing designed to reinforce Baghdad's own claims on the city. But Turkey views Kirkuk as the rightful property of Iraq's tiny Turkman minority, which has close ties to Ankara and whose historic conflict with the Kurds has at times erupted in bloodshed...
...happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden of fig-trees and lettuce which laps Aman the Bey and his harem in luxury. But John Reed Turkman writes to the Reds, who come five strong on a thundering locomotive to water the desert. They brave the storms of the waste, the scorching sun, and the sinister Bey, and the rest is simple...
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