The Arabization of Kirkuk (Kurdish: عەرەباندنی کەرکووک also بەعەرەبکردنی کەرکووک or تەعریبی کەرکووک, Turkish: Kerkük'ün Araplaşması) began in Ba'athist Iraq in the 1960s. In line with the wider Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq, the Iraqi government worked to alter the demographic composition of the Kirkuk Governorate by ethnically cleansing non-Arabs—mainly Kurds, but also Turkmen and Assyrians, among others—and replacing them with Arab settlers.
The Arabization of Kirkuk (Kurdish: عەرەباندنی کەرکووک also بەعەرەبکردنی کەرکووک or تەعریبی کەرکووک, Turkish: Kerkük'ün Araplaşması) began in Ba'athist Iraq in the 1960s. In line with the wider Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq, the Iraqi government worked to alter the demographic composition of the Kirkuk Governorate by ethnically cleansing non-Arabs—mainly Kurds, but also Turkmen and Assyrians, among others—and replacing them with Arab settlers.
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