Jaafar: Barzani pushed his armed groups to burn the Iraqi flag in Kirkuk to stir up civil war
Jaafar: Barzani pushed his armed groups to burn the Iraqi flag in Kirkuk to stir up civil war
9-5-2023
Information / Baghdad..
On Tuesday, the former Turkmen MP, Jassem Muhammad Jaafar, accused the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Masoud Barzani, of pushing groups affiliated with him to stir up strife inside Kirkuk, indicating that burning the Iraqi flag aims to stir up national strife and ignite civil war.
In a statement to Al-Maalouma, Jaafar said, “Kirkuk governorate, between the years 2003 and 2017, was under the influence of Masoud Barzani and his party, as he repressed the Arab and Turkmen components, imprisoned them, and destroyed their homes.”
He added that “after the liberation of Kirkuk from ISIS and the dominance of the Kurdistan Democratic Party over the capabilities of the province in 2017, Barzani tried by all means to return again to dominate the province, but he failed in all attempts,” noting that “Barzani began moving towards a new project to create chaos within the province to achieve greater gains.” from the Federal Government.
Jaafar pointed out that “the groups affiliated with Masoud are the ones who burned the Iraqi flag and caused a state of riots yesterday, Monday, in Kirkuk, calling” the forces of the framework and the government not to meet any demands of Barzani, and to deal with him in accordance with judicial rulings related to the center’s relationship with the region, and to keep Kirkuk. of all nationalities under the leadership of a governor of the central government.
Kurdish groups set out to burn the Iraqi flag in front of the citizens of Kirkuk province as part of the riots yesterday evening.
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