Arabic news agency ,Al Jazeera is reporting Turkey's parliament recently went into secret session to debate sending troops to invade and occupy Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Iraq.
Turkey's prime minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan recently said Turkey could not "remain indifferent to the plight of the Turkomens and Arabs...in Kirkuk."
On Sunday, Kirkuk was hit with a pair of car bombings. At least 17 people died and 30 more were injured.
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