| 1. | We believe Mr . Bush can carry us back to Kirkuk.
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| 2. | It is part of the campaign to deport Kurds from Kirkuk,
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| 3. | Kirkuk and Mosul house a sizable Turkmen population of Turkish descent.
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| 4. | So they expelled us from Kirkuk, the heart of Kurdistan.
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| 5. | Kirkuk is the center of the oil industry in northern Iraq.
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| 6. | Kurds are anxious to stake their claims to Kirkuk and Mosul.
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| 7. | Kurdish fighters also are closing in on Kirkuk from the southeast.
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| 8. | But the Kurds who took Kirkuk were unapologetic, and exultant.
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| 9. | But Gul said Saturday that Kurdish fighters had withdrawn from Kirkuk.
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| 10. | But Kurds have taken aggressive steps in other areas in Kirkuk.
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