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The Arab Weekly (27 January 2019)

Azhar Al-Rubaie and Yousif Raheem

KIRKUK, Iraq - Tensions have resurfaced in the oil-rich, multi-ethnic Iraqi province of Kirkuk after a Kurdish party raised the flag of the country’s autonomous Kurdistan region over the building that houses its headquarters, drawing protest from the central Iraqi government in Baghdad.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, in a statement, criticised the raising of Kurdistan’s flag by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and asked that it be taken down from the building in Kirkuk.

Kirkuk is Iraq’s most multicultural province with a population that includes Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, as well as Chaldean and Assyrian Christians. In 2018, Iraq’s Central Statistical Organisation estimated the Kirkuk population at nearly 1.5 million.

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