I don't know how I Should think about this report??????

[AFO]

Iraqi Embassy in Vienna Issuing Passports to Turkish and Syrian Kurds Emphasizing Kirkuk as the City of Birth

With the referendum in northern Iraq, planned for the end of 2007, is approaching in order to decide the future of the region and the fate of Kirkuk and parts of Mosul, Kurds continue to allow thousands of Turkish and Iranian Kurds to move into northern Iraq and settle in Kirkuk in order to change the demographic of the oil rich city. This fact has been reported earlier in the media, however, more recently, accusations of the involvement of Iraqi embassies, where Kurds are in control of, in such scheme have been floating around as well.

According to Sheren Hashim Aqrawi, a Kurdish engineer living in Germany and a researcher in human rights in the European Union, the Iraqi embassy in Vienna has been issuing tens of Iraqi passports daily to Syrian and Turkish Kurds. In addition, the embassy and the Kurdish ambassador have been issuing another set of Iraqi passports to non-Iraqi Kurds who had received Iraqi passports in the past from Germany, France, and Belgium but this time these new passports indicated that the city of birth of these Kurds was Kirkuk.

When the Iraqi Counsel at the Vienna embassy uncovered the scheme, she was suspended and another young Kurds related to Talabani and with connections to Barham Salih was appointed in her place. Furthermore, many Kurds have been employed in the said embassy and housed in the Iraqi government owned properties in Vienna. All these efforts are made to Kurdify the embassy and have it ready to represent the future state of Kurdistan.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zibari, a Kurd as well, has yet to open any investigation in the matter. None of the Iraqi government officials seem to be willing or interested to investigate the matter.

Read the whole story here: (Arabic)

http://www.kitabat.com/i17025.htm

http://www.kitabat.com/i17025.htm

[Vladimir]

Propaganda.. and btw. Kirkuk is already in majority Kurdish.

[Tirigan]

Dirty lies! If it was so easy for other Kurds from other parts of Kurdistan to become a citizen of south-Kurdistan, I was now living in Kirkuk and not in Amsterdam.