Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise

Contents

Contents List of Abbreviations vii Introduction 1 PART I KIRKUK AND ITS ENVIRONS 1 Kirkuk before Iraq 13 2 Kirkuk in the Twentieth Century 24 PART II THREE ETHNOPOLITIC AL PERSPECTIVES 3 The Post-2003 Iraqi Context 51 4 The Turkmen Perspective: The Demise of a Formerly Dominant Community 56 5 The Kurdish Perspective: Gaining ‘‘Jerusalem’’ 71 6 The Arab Perspective: Applying the Old Rules 79 PA RT III T HE POSTWA R S TRUGGLE FOR KIRKUK 7 The Kurds Ascendant 91 8 The Kurds Triumphant 113 9 The Kurds Denied 139 PART IV THE FUTURE O F KIRKUK: DIMENSIONS OF COMPROMISE 10 The Struggle for Kirkuk: Problems of Process 167 vi Contents 11 The Struggle for Kirkuk: Problems of Final Status 185 12 The Struggle for Kirkuk: Future Governance 204 Conclusion 234 Notes 245 List of People Interviewed 283 Index 285 Acknowledgments 297 ...