Kirkuk Kurds leave integrity committee meeting over Kurdish language dispute
26/06/2012 13:40
ERBIL, June 26 (AKnews) – The meeting between Iraq and Kirkuk's
integrity committee was held in the city's provincial council yesterday
but the Kirkuk Kurds left the meeting due to a lack of Kurdish language
on the meeting’s bulletin board.
The Kirkuk Brotherhood List (KBL) held a press conference after leaving the meeting.
Member
of the city council Ahmed Askari said "We are in support of the
elimination of corruption in Kirkuk but we left the meeting because the
tablet meeting was only written in Arabic without respecting the other
three languages in the city."
According to law, everything in Kirkuk
must be written in four languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish
and Suriani, added Askari.
"This is the second time this conduct has
been repeated. We agreed that the bulletin board should be written in
four languages but the managerial board of the meeting didn’t comply
with its obligation.”
The head of Kirkuk's integrity committee
stated: "The KBL has a right to leave the meeting because everyone
should be respected in Kirkuk."
Kirkuk came second in Iraq this year regarding the amount of corruption cases in the city.
By Hazhar Rashid
HH/DM/AKnews
