Kirkuk sits on the ruins of the original Kirkuk Citadel which sits near the Khasa River. It is described by the Kurdish leader and former Iraqi president Jalal Talabani as “the Jerusalem of Kurdistan”, while it is seen by the Turkmen activist Fatih Salah as the cultural and historical capital of Iraqi Turkmens. [8]

Feb 25, 2025 · Kirkūk, city, capital of Kirkūk muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northeastern Iraq. The city is 145 miles (233 km) north of Baghdad, the national capital, with which it is linked by road and railway. Kirkūk is located near the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Kirkuk Governorate (Arabic: محافظة كركوك, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat Karkūk; [3] Kurdish: پارێزگای کەرکووک, romanized: Parêzgeha Kerkûkê/Parêzgayi Kerkûk; [4] [5] Turkish: Kerkük Valiliği) or Kirkuk Province is a governorate in northern Iraq.The governorate has an area of 9,679 square kilometres (3,737 sq mi). In 2017, the estimated population was 1,259,561 ...

Feb 25, 2025 · The agreement is for an initial phase and includes oil and gas production of more than three billion barrels of oil equivalent. It includes the Baba and Avanah domes of the Kirkuk oil field and three adjacent fields – Bai Hassan, Jambur and Khabbaz – in Federal Iraq, all of which are currently operated by the NOC.

Oct 16, 2017 · Kirkuk is an ethnically mixed oil-rich province of Kurds, Sunni and Shiite Arabs, and Turkmen. It has long been at the center of disputes between Baghdad and the autonomous...

Kirkuk (Kurdish: کەرکووک, Arabic: كركوك, Turkish: Kerkük) is a city in Northwestern Iraq. However, its population is ethnically mixed, and it is under the control of the Iraqi government. Kirkuk has its own airport served by a limited number of domestic …

The Arabization of Kirkuk (Kurdish: عەرەباندنی کەرکووک also بەعەرەبکردنی کەرکووک or تەعریبی کەرکووک, Turkish: Kerkük'ün Araplaşması) began in Ba'athist Iraq in the 1960s. In line with the wider Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq, the Iraqi government worked to alter the demographic composition of the Kirkuk Governorate by ...

Sep 17, 2024 · The competition centered in Kirkuk will likely intensify further in the run-up to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s (KRI) parliamentary elections on October 20, with increasing tensions among the Iraqi Kurds. Türkiye’s fight against the PKK and Iran’s mounting influence through its proxies will likely be part of Kirkuk’s upcoming issues.

Sep 10, 2023 · The recent crisis in Kirkuk, an oil-rich city located in northern Iraq, has once again highlighted the intricate historical ethnic and political factors behind the ongoing conflict. Kirkuk has historically been contested between the federal government in Baghdad and authorities in the autonomous Kurdistan region of the north.

Kirkuk is a city in northern Iraq and capital of Kirkuk Governorate. The Kirkuk region lies among the Gudrun peak to the north-east, the Zab River and the Tigris River to the west, the Hamrin Mountains to the south, and the Diyala River to the south-east.