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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
06KIRKUK47	2006-02-27 14:35	2011-08-30 01:44	CONFIDENTIAL	REO Kirkuk

VZCZCXRO0036
PP RUEHBC RUEHDE RUEHIHL RUEHMOS
DE RUEHKUK #0047 0581435
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P R 271435Z FEB 06
FM REO KIRKUK
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0537
RUEHGB/AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD PRIORITY 0500
INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE
RUEHKUK/REO KIRKUK 0564

C O N F I D E N T I A L KIRKUK 000047 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
BAGHDAD FOR POL, ECON, NCT, IRMO, USAI 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL:  2/27/2016 
TAGS: PGOV PBTS EAID PHUM IZ
SUBJECT: (C) TOZKHURMATO TO JOIN KIRKUK PROVINCE? 
 
REF: KIRKUK 18 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Scott Dean, Regional Coordinator (Acting), REO 
Kirkuk, DoS. 
REASON: 1.4 (b), (d) 
 
 
 
¶1. (U) This is a joint Kirkuk and SET Tikrit cable. 
 
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SUMMARY 
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¶2. (C) Governor Hamad of Salah ad Din Province says he would not 
object to Tozkhurmato's rejoining Kirkuk province, were 
residents to favor that in a referendum.  By contrast, a 
Tozkhurmato Turcoman strongly opposed the idea the same day with 
SET.  Saddam removed Tozkhurmato from Kirkuk province; the Kurds 
want it back.  The KRG has been giving assistance to Salah ad 
Din province to win support.  The Constitution requires a 
referendum before the end of 2007.  Tozkhurmato's significant 
Kurdish population supports joining Kirkuk province and the KRG. 
 Advance acquiescence from the Salah ad Din governor should help 
that along. 
 
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CONVERSATIONS 
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¶3.  (C) With SET on February 21, Governor Hamad of Salah ad Din 
province confirmed that he would not object to Tozkhurmato's 
rejoining Kirkuk province, were residents to favor that in a 
referendum.  This followed February 20 press reports that the 
governor had made similar remarks to Kirkuk Governor 
'Abd-al-Rahman Mustapha.  Governor Hamad explained to SET that 
the people of Tozkhurmato were more like those of Kirkuk (read: 
were Kurds and Turcomans) and would be happier there. 
 
¶4.  (C) By contrast, a Turcoman from Tozkhurmato, Salah ad Din 
Provincial Council member Dr. Sami Aria Mohammad, strongly 
opposed the idea.  Sami charged that Kirkuk already was rife 
with ethnic discrimination and complained that, even without 
Kurds from Tozkhurmato, the Turcoman percentage of Kirkuk 
province had already declined from 70% in the 1970's to only 50% 
now because of Arabization.  Annexing Tozkhurmato would only 
reduce the Turcoman percentage in Kirkuk province further. 
 
 
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COMMENT 
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¶5.  (SBU)  Tozkhurmato's population is predominantly Kurd and 
Turcoman.  Saddam sliced the area off from Kirkuk province and 
merged it in 1975 with Tikrit, Balad and Samarra from Baghdad to 
create Salah ad Din, a new province for his hometown.  The Kurds 
want Tozkhurmato back.  As reported reftel, the Kurdish region 
has been donating assistance to Salah ad Din Province to win 
political leaders' support for returning Tozkhurmato to Kirkuk 
province, which Kurds expect in turn to join the Kurdish region. 
 (KRG authorities are also, for example, donating money for 
equipment and fuel at Tozkhurmato's biggest business: a 
state-owned poultry farm.) 
 
¶6.  (C)  The Salah ad Din Governor's comment is significant. 
Except for some Kurdish-dominated districts now in Mosul 
province, Tozkhurmato is the only area Saddam separated from 
Kirkuk province that is not already in the Kurdistan Region. 
Internal KRG boundary adjustments to return Kirkuk province to 
its original boundaries will be easy for the Kurds if both 
Tozkhurmato and Kirkuk province join the KRG as the Kurds 
expect. 
 
¶7.  (C)  The Constitution requires a referendum on disputed 
territories such as Tozkhurmato by the end of 2007.  This being 
Iraq, we do not yet know if the country will meet that 
constitutional timeline nor how the results of that referendum 
will meet the "principle of justice" that the Constitution, 
through its incorporation of TAL Article 58, also requires in a 
settlement.  When the vote comes, though, Tozkhurmato's 
significant Kurdish population will almost certainly support 
joining Kirkuk province and the KRG.  Many Arabs and some 
Turcomans may oppose this unless the Kurds can convince them 
that life as a minority in Kurdistan will be better than life in 
Salah ad Din Province.  However, advance acquiescence from the 
Salah ad Din governor to the Kurdish plan should help the KRG to 
retake Tozkhurmato. 
 
ORESTE

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