Kirkuk/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Kirkuk.

A city in northern Iraq, long significant to the Kurdish people, with large forced Arabization under Saddam Hussein and now a key point of struggle in Iraqi politics and in Kurdish identity; dominates the northern oilfields