Exposing a febricated Report

Exposing a fabricated Report

In today’s number of Turkish Daily there is a report concerning the resettlement of Kurds in the Kurdistani city of Kerkuk.
This fabricated report shows the total ignorance of its authors , which most likely is a disinformation launched by Turkish intelligent agencies to incite hatred and fear between the population of Kerkuk.
For instance the report claims that the total number of people from different communities in Kerkuk who were expelled from Kerkuk during the reign of previous regime in Iraq, amounts to 11,800 persons. This is a sheer lie. Hurriyet refers this issue to United Nations statistics, without saying where this statistics is published.
Another point which reveals the fabricated content of this report and the ignorance of its authors is calling 3 neighborhoods of the city of Kerkuk to be near the town Erbil (Hewler)
Actually the neighborhoods of Rehimawa, Iskan, Shorica are main neighborhoods of the city of Kerkuk.
The following is the fabricated report of Hurriyet in its on line issue of today:

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Hurriyet , English Sunday, January 14, 2007

Report on Kirkuk: 600,000 Kurds have moved to this northern city post-Saddam

Hurriyet has obtained a copy of the report on the population shifts in the Northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a report whose contents have underlined in speeches over past weeks by both National Intelligence Agency (MIT) head Emre Taner and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The study on Kirkuk's demographics, and developments related to the rapid movement of Iraqi Kurds into the area, contains the following details: * An estimated 600,000 Kurdish citizens have been moved to Kirkuk from different areas in Northern Iraq, and have subsequently been registered to vote in elections. There are allegations that money has been promised to many of the Kurds moving to Kirkuk. Some reports note that the promised money has been as much as 10 to 20 thousand dollars per family. * Most of the Kurds moving into the region are being placed in apartments being built in Suleymaniye or in Rahimova, Iskan, and Shorca near Erbil. * Other Kurdish families moving into the area are currently staying in tents near the Kirkuk Stadium, many waiting for money promised to them in return for making the move. * Peshmergas and their families have moved into the military garrisons in Kirkuk built during Saddam Hussein's rule. * According to United Nations statistics, the number of Turkmenis, Kurds, Arabs, and Suryanis forced to move away from Kirkuk under Saddam Hussein's rule was around 11,800. The number of Kurds estimated to have moved to Kirkuk following Saddam Hussein's overthrow is around 600,000.