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Kirkuk

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Kir·kuk  (kîr-kk)
A city of northeast Iraq southeast of Mosul. Built on the site of a settlement dating to 3000 b.c., it is an agricultural market in an oil-producing region. Population: 601,000.
Kirkuk [kɜːˈkʊk ˈkɜːkʊk]
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(Placename) a city in NE Iraq: centre of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean. Pop.: 418 625 (latest est.)
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Noun1.KirkukKirkuk - a city in northeastern Iraq; the center of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean
Al-Iraq, Irak, Iraq, Republic of Iraq - a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq


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Since 2003, the Kurds have been waging a systematic, ugly round of ethnic cleansing, packing Kirkuk with Kurds, kidnapping or driving out Arab residents (many of them settled there by Saddam), and stacking the city council with Kurdish partisans.
Apocalypse not: much of Washington assumes that leaving Iraq will ... by Dreyfuss, Robert / Washington Monthly
Do you have alerts sent to your home and work computers from areas like Kirkuk, Tikrit, Balad or Fallujah so you can worry when there are fatalities, holding your breath until you get a call or e-mail from your child saying, ``They missed me this time.
MR. BUSH, SEND YOUR OWN DAUGHTERS TO IRAQ by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Arbil would serve as an access point for Mosul and the oil-rich region around Kirkuk while the United Nations also planned to establish a major base in the city, Austrian said.
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