Kirkuk was made by the Guttis.
1921, the British estimated the population of the Kirkuk region to be 75,000 Kurds, 35,000 Turkomans, 10,000 Arabs, 1,400 Jews, and 600 Chaldeans. A League of Nations Committee that visited the Mosul vilayet in 1925 estimated that the Kurds comprised 63 percent of Kirkuk's population, the Turkomans, 19 percent, and the Arabs, 18 percent.
After the Baath party consolidated power in 1963, the National Guard (al-Haras al-Qawmi), recruited Arab Baathists and Turkomans who systematically attacked ethnic Kurds. Between 1963 and 1988, the Baathist regime destroyed 779 Kurdish villages in the Kirkuk region razing 493 primary schools, 598 mosques, and 40 medical clinics. In order to prevent the return of the Kurds, they burned farms and orchards, confiscated cattle, blew up wells, and obliterated cemeteries. In all, this ethnic cleansing campaign forced 37,726 Kurdish families out of their villages. Given the average rural Kurdish family size of between five and seven people, this policy forced over 200,000 Kurds to flee the region. The Kurds were not the regime's only victims. During the Iran-Iraq war, the central government destroyed about ten Shiite Turkoman villages south of Kirkuk.
The last ethnic-breakdown census in Iraq was conducted in 1957, well before Saddam began his program to move Arabs to Kirkuk. That count showed 178,000 Kurds, 48,000 Turkomen, 43,000 Arabs and 10,000 Assyrian-Chaldean Christians living in the province
Kirkuk is controlled by kurds and will be annexed to KRG, it has already happened we just need to make it official force or peaceful we are not going to give up.
at 3:22 is the proof kurds are running Kirkuk, Governor is a kurd, provincial council is majority kurds and rejected dijla thugs, what more can we ask for ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npt7u6BsP7U&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1 this video report is in the heart of kirkuk city, watch the Kurdish flag waving in the background
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jOZcxB4Ao&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1 Kirkuk Governor in the middle of the city again kurdish flag behind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6PkqgyFCBI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1 here Kurdish police in south of Kirkuk (Daquq) stop dijla thugs from entering Kirkuk, yeah iraq is in control of kirkuk MY ASS.
Kurdish security forces, from the stand off - photo in KirkukKurdish security forces are at stand off near Daquq district in south of Kirkuk province, after the Dijla command held and arrested two security vehicles which were heading for Salahadin, then the Dijla tried to enter Kirkuk at Daquq south of the province but they were intercepted by the Kurdish security forces and they are now at stand off since yesterday.
Talabani to Milky: "Kirkuk is red line and you shall not touch it".
this photo is heart of Kirkuk
maybe ssc trolls can tell us besides Hawler, Suli and Duhok which other so called iraqi city has the kurdish flag in the middle of its city center? oh let me break it to them, only those 3 + kirkuk.
plus in my entire life i have to come across an arab from kirkuk, lol no such thing coz they all live in Hawija and are minority you will see them hardly. also good to see all kurds including Goran and islamic parties are united against milky on Kirkuk, lastly creating a militia and name it dijla thugs in itself shows who currently control kirkuk otherwise why even bother create and try to invade kirkuk with it Hawija is in blue and will be given to iraq, it already is controlled by them, let them steal it bcoz of saddam majority are arab "sunnis"