Kurds, Arabs fight over land in Kirkuk’s Daquq district, following Daquq court decision to reinstate over 1K acres of farmland to Kurds

12/7/2022 11:58:37 AM
 
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They fought with sticks ad stones.

Today, Wednesday, a Kurdsat English reporter said that fighting broke out between Kurdish farmers and relocated Arabs in Haftaghar in the Daquq district. Hundreds of thousands of acres of land are disputed between Kurds and Arabs in Kirkuk and other regions of the disputed territories, an outcome caused by Iraq’s continued Arabization of the region.

"The relocated Arabs brought several tractors to farm tracts of Kurdish-owned land, prompting the farmers to attack the relocated Arabs with sticks and stones, forcing them to leave," per the reporter. 

Kurdish, Turkmen, and Arab farmers dispute over 300 hectares of farmlands in Kirkuk and the disputed territories, most of which remain unsettled and are a source of contention between the different minority groups. Although the Daquq court ruled the return of thousands of acres of land back to the Kurds in November, the Arab farmers have ignored the decision.

 


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