Tuesday, 30 June 2009A car bomb has killed at least 27 people in Kirkuk, a northern Iraqi city, on the day that Iraqi forces officially assumed control of security in Baghdad and other urban areas.
At least 45 other people were wounded when the car bomb exploded at a market in Kirkuk, leaving smoldering rubble where people had been shopping for food and other goods.
The oil-rich Kirkuk region is at the center of a power struggle between ethnic and religious groups, including Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen. The city has been a Turkmen city yet the Kurdish groups aim to capture it in order to finance an independent Kurdish state.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Journal of Turkish Weekly
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