Article: As Kurds return to oil-rich city, a fragile ethnic detente emerges.

Article: As Most Militias Leave Kirkuk, Kurd-Arab Tensions ...
The Washington Post;  April 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... sensitive city. But Kurds were still very much present in Kirkuk, some of them ... at the hands of Kurds. At what had been the main Kirkuk office of the Baath ... northern Iraq, Kurds and Turkmen were ... Arabs who moved to Kirkuk were rewarded with ...

Article: Ethnic Groups Try to Stake Claim on Kirkuk; Kurds, ...
The Washington Post;  January 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... to unify Iraq and keep Kirkuk part of Iraq." Increasing ... preferential treatment of the Kurds by the Independent Electoral ... registration period for displaced Kurds returning to Kirkuk. Ahmed Obaidi, the head ... and foil the plan of the Kurd parties, which will try ...

Article: Power-sharing favored for Kirkuk U.N. hopes to ease ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  March 30, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... in northern Iraq. Kurds make up an estimated 52 percent of Kirkuk's population ... Christians live in Kirkuk. Kurds want the province ... ethnic groups in Kirkuk are partially rooted ... Tens of thousands of Kurds were killed, and ...

Article: Kirkuk: Iraq's northern tinderbox; 12,000 Turkish soldiers ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  January 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... that any attempt by Iraqi Kurds to seize control of Kirkuk - as they did briefly during ... Turkey's warnings about Kirkuk, the Kurds aren't backing down ... Turkmen with a plurality in Kirkuk city, and Kurds with a plurality in the wider ...

Article: Kurds' readiness to end Kirkuk impasse raises hopes ...
The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon);  June 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... could be defused. "In Kirkuk, as Kurds, we are ready for power ... popular referendum. Because Kurds' numbers in Kirkuk have grown since 2003 ... council for months. Like Kurds, Turkomans claim ownership of Kirkuk and some of their major ...

Article: Kurds win majority in Iraq's oil-rich city of ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  February 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... could inflame tensions between Kurds and Kirkuk's Arab and Turkmen residents ... to grant the right to vote in Kirkuk to Kurds who had been driven out of their ... day, he said, thousands of Kurds traveled to Kirkuk from neighboring Kurdish provinces ...

Article: Kurds' strong showing in Kirkuk threatens to ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  February 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... could inflame tensions between Kurds and Kirkuk's Arab and Turkmen residents ... to grant the right to vote in Kirkuk to Kurds who had been driven out of their ... day, he said, thousands of Kurds traveled to Kirkuk from neighboring Kurdish provinces ...