Baghdad, 04 June 2008 (Voices of Iraq)
Turcoman Lawmaker Fawzi Akram Tarzi on Wednesday welcomes statements of Iraq’s Kurdistan Prime Minister Negervan Barazani, during which he expressed Kurdish readiness to share all ethnic groups in ruling Kirkuk.
“The Turcomans received Barazani’s statements with great optimisms and the Turcoman leaderships realized that the Kirkuk cause will not be solved without understanding as well as to take into consideration the privacy of the city,” Tarzi, a Sadrist, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Barazani had expressed in statements from Dubai yesterday the Kurds’ readiness to share power with Arabs in the city of Kirkuk,, highlighting the importance role of the U.N. to solve this cause.
The Turcoman MP voiced belief that in case these statements implemented would contribute in realizing peace and security throughout Kirkuk.
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution is related to the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk , an important and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs. Kurds seek to include the city in the autonomous Iraq's Kurdistan region, while Sunni Arabs, Turkmen and Shiite Arabs oppose the incorporation. The article currently stipulates that all Arabs in Kirkuk be returned to their original locations in southern and central Iraqi areas, and formerly displaced residents returned to Kirkuk, 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
A referendum, provided for in the Iraqi constitution, was scheduled to be held by the end of 2007 on including the city into the Kurdistan region, but was postponed for six months.
Iraq 's Kurdistan region includes the provinces of Arbil, Sulaimaniya and Duhuk. It has a Kurdish majority population in addition to Turkmen, Arabs, Christians and Chaldean-Assyrians, constituting one fifth of Iraq 's 27 million population, according to figures released by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq.
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