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