Turkey’s Erdogan demands Iraqi Kurds to bring down Kurdish flag in Kirkuk

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday demanded  Iraqi Kurds to bring down  the Kurdish flag raised in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, alerting  that failure to do so would destroy  their relations with Turkey.

“We don’t agree with the claim ‘Kirkuk is for the Kurds’ at all. Kirkuk is for the Turkmen, Arabs and Kurds, if they are there. Do not enter into a claim that it’s yours or the price will be heavy,” he said at a rally in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak.

 “Bring that flag down immediately.” Kurds have long claimed Kirkuk and its huge oil reserves. Turkey is afraid of  territorial earnings  by some Kurdish groups in Iraq and Syria could fuel Kurdish separatist ambitions inside Turkey.