Friday, September 28, 2007

Thousands of Iraqi Arabs paid to leave Kirkuk

AFP

Agence France Presse

September 27, 2007

KIRKUK — Thousands of Iraqi Arabs have accepted financial compensation to leave the northern city of Kirkuk, which leaders of the autonomous Kurdish region are seeking to control, a minister said Thursday.

Around 2,000 Arabs living there had agreed to return to their home provinces under an initiative launched by the committee in charge of overseeing relations in Kirkuk , Environment Minister Nermeen Othman said. Full Text

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