Kirkuk massacre

Name: Kirkuk massacre
Start: 1959

1959 CE.

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The 1959 Kirkuk massacre was a massacre of Iraqi Turkmen in Kirkuk, Iraq, which lasted from 14 July to 16 July 1959. The perpetrators were mostly Kurdish members of the Iraqi Communist Party and some Arab members. The massacre was a major event in Iraqi Turkmen history. The massacre was described as an ethnically motivated attack with no association to politics.

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