[
US
/ˌkɪɹˈkʊk/
]
NOUN
- a city in northeastern Iraq; the center of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean
How To Use Kirkuk In A Sentence
- Ms. NERMEEN AL-MUFTI (Spokeswoman, Iraqi Turkmen Front): The first thing is Turkmen and Arabs, not only in Kirkuk - in Kirkuk, Diyala, Salahudeen, Mosul and Anbar - they are going to boycott it. In Iraq, Counting Heads Is A Political Headache
- The charity said most areas were inaccessible to aid organisations and there was evidence of a humanitarian crisis in Umm Qasr in the south and Kirkuk in the north.
- In the north, the Kurds, though mostly Sunni, are on the alert to resist any attempts by Sunni Arabs, the ones moved in by Saddam Hussein as part of his arabization of Kurdistan, to retake power in Mosul or Kirkuk. Jihad Watch
- They set an ambush for us in Kirkuk recently. The Sun
- They set an ambush for us in Kirkuk recently. The Sun
- The untapped East Baghdad oil field, near the capital, has proven reserves of 8 billion barrels, while Kirkuk oil fiel d in the north has 8.9 billion barrels, the minister said. Iraq Proven Oil Reserves Rise Significantly
- In 2010, the Association for Crisis Assistance and Development Co-operation (WADI), a German-Iraqi human rights nongovernmental organization, published the results of a study conducted between September 2007 and May 2008 in the provinces of Arbil and Sulaimaniya, and the Germian/Kirkuk region. Human Rights Watch: Iraqi Kurdistan: Girls and Women Suffer the Consequences of Female Genital Mutilation
- Coincidentally, one of the salesmen who tried to flog me a car was an Assyrian Christian from Kirkuk!
- We had decided to get an early start and headed out to Kirkuk and then to Tikrit.
- Separately, a Kurdish "mukhtar," or notary, Ahmed Farej Samed was killed in the street in the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, also north of the capital. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion