Turkomen Front charges Parliament with security deterioration in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: The Chairman of the Turkomen Front in northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk has charged the Iraqi Parliament with responsibility for the deterioration of the security situation in the city, targeting Turkomen. “The Iraqi Parliament bears responsibility for every drop of Turkoman blood shedding in Kirkukk,” Legislature Arshad al-Salehy said in a statement, copy of which was received by IraqiNews.com news agency. Salehy said that the Parliament “had failed in sending a fact-finding committee to Kirkuk to investigate the causes of the security deterioration and the stepping up of the security violations, clearly targeted against the Turkomen,” stressing that “more than 80% of those targeted by terrorism through assassinations, abductions, blackmailing and threats, had been Turkomen.” Noteworthy is that a number of assassination attempts have been implemented by unknown groups in Kirkuk against doctors and other intellectuals recently. Kirkuk, 250 km to the northeast of Baghdad, is among the areas in-conflict between the Federal Government in Baghdad and northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region’s Government in Arbil.   SKH (TI)/SR 287