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The headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Get together, led by Masoud Barzani, was attacked at daybreak on Saturday with mild weapons by unknown assailants in Kirkuk Governorate.

The assault comes amid discuss of Barzani main talks with the Arab and Turkmen elements to resolve the native authorities dilemma and the governor’s place, some 7 months after the native elections had been held. and a senior Kurdish official denied this, and instructed Asharq Al-Awsat that “Masoud Barzani is exterior the nation as of late.” He didn’t meet members of the Kirkuk Council.

Safety sources within the province stated that unknown gunmen opened hearth on Saturday morning on the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Get together within the Staff’ Sq. space of ​​central Kirkuk, inflicting no casualties. the assault human loss of life or materials injury.

After the assault, a police pressure arrived on the scene, opened an investigation, and launched descriptions of the attackers who fled to an unknown vacation spot.

The headquarters of the “Democratic Get together” in Kirkuk had provoked a significant disaster inside the authorities on the finish of final 12 months, after the Army Operations Command demanded that the headquarters be taken handed, which he had been there since 2017, and a battle passed off between the supporters of the social gathering and the safety forces, which led to the killing of people along with an officer within the “Peshmerga” forces.

The disaster ended after social gathering chief Masoud Barzani handed over the headquarters and gave it, in November, to Kirkuk College in order that it will “serve data seekers and intellectuals” within the city. “

Kurdish demonstrators on the roof of the Barzani social gathering headquarters constructing in Kirkuk (Archive – Rawado Community)

Preliminary details about the assault

A spokesman for the third department of the Democratic Get together in Kirkuk introduced that the social gathering had “details about concentrating on the headquarters,” whereas Kurdish researcher Kifah Mahmoud stated there are “suspicions that ‘go round who benefited from disrupting the work of the Regional Council and never arriving. at an agreed determine to run the province.”

Mahmoud stated in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, “With a easy conclusion, it’s doable to attach the operation of burning the markets in Erbil, Kirkuk, and Dohuk to this operation, which aimed to enter to the guard fence and enter the guard fence. constructing and burning, particularly since it’s much like the burning of the markets that occurred late at evening.”

Mahmoud continued: “These arms have bases and presence they usually trigger regional issues between Iraq and the Kurdistan area on the one hand and between neighboring international locations however.”

Mahmoud stated, “The difficulty associated to the identification of the perpetrators is pending the discharge of the recordings of the digital camera system that captured the motion of these components utilized by a constructing beneath building.”

For a very long time, the circles of the Democratic Get together have accused components of the Turkish Kurdistan Staff’ Get together of being concerned in numerous hostile actions which are happening towards it and towards some oil and gasoline corporations who works within the area, particularly within the Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah governorates is held accountable for the introduction of Turkish forces into the Iraqi area of the Kurdistan area.

A spokesman for the third department of the Kurdistan Democratic Get together in Kirkuk, Mariwan Jalal, stated on Saturday that the department had “details about concentrating on the headquarters, and that the assault had a political nature and that similtaneously the function of the social gathering in gathering concepts for its creation. the administration of Kirkuk and its council.”

He stated in press experiences that “the assault has a political nature and doesn’t goal the Kurdistan Democratic Get together, however targets all components of Kirkuk, and it got here at a time when the Democratic Get together was working to deliver views nearer to the components of Kirkuk. the province to start creating the administration of the province and implement the work of the council to offer companies to all components of the province.”

Al-Sudani receives representatives from the Turkmen half (authorities media)

Sudan meets Turkmen

For his half, Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, on Saturday, acquired two members of the Turkmen a part of the Kirkuk Regional Council, and urged them to agree on the place of the governor of Kirkuk to be chosen in a approach that meets the desires of the individuals. of the federal government.

The efforts of Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani haven’t but succeeded in fixing the federal government disaster, regardless of the repeated conferences he had with the forces that gained seats in his council.

Throughout the assembly, Al-Sudani, in accordance with a press release issued by his workplace, highlighted “the significance of displaying the curiosity of the individuals of Kirkuk in any settlement between the political forces that gained the elections, after the success as they had been saved afterwards. turmoil that has continued since 2005.”

Al-Sudani emphasised the necessity to “select a profitable native authorities administration, and agree on the place of the governor of Kirkuk in a approach that meets the desires of the individuals of the federal government.”

There have been experiences for weeks that the rival forces within the Regional Council are attempting to agree on a method to resolve the governor’s place by rotating it among the many successful blocs, in order that the Kurds retain the workplace within the first two years, then going to the Arabs within the final two years of the time period of the Regional Council, which is proscribed to 4 years.