Barzani Wants Kurdish Recognition

"BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The new president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region called on parliament Sunday to recognize the Kurdish identity of Kirkuk, the oil-rich and ethnically mixed city that Kurds want to annex as their capital.

Masoud Barzani, the veteran Kurdish guerrilla leader who was elected last week to lead Iraq's northern Kurdish-dominated region, also called for a repeal of "all demographic and political changes the former regime implemented in Kirkuk and other Kurdish areas."

Saddam Hussein promoted ethnic cleansing of the city during his rule, deporting most Kurds - whom he saw as subversives - while relocating fellow Arabs into the northern city.

Since the first Gulf War, the Kurds - under the protection of U.S. and British air patrols - have run large parts of territory they had historically populated in northern Iraq. Huge numbers of Kurds also live in southeastern Turkey, Syria and neighboring Iran. The minority people have never had a country of their own."
MyWay

Medya it looks like your voice is finally being heard, even in the MSM. I know this is just one story, but you have to start somewhere.