Arabs and Turkmen demonstrate against the selection of a Kurdish governor for Kirkuk

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Dozens of Arabs and Turkmen demonstrated in front of the Kirkuk Governorate building, rejecting the selection of a Kurdish governor. Members of the Kirkuk Provincial Council elected yesterday evening, Ribwar Taha from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, as governor of Kirkuk and Mohammed Al-Hafez as head of the provincial council, in a meeting held at the Rashid Hotel in Baghdad in the absence of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Turkmen Front and the Arab Alliance. Source: National Iraqi News Agency