Turkey to seize Kirkuk and Mousul says Israeli news website

1. The Kurdish autonomous government of northern Iraq will grant 70,000 Turkish troops of the 2nd and 3rd Corps free passage through its territory for them push towards the big northern Iraqi Kurdish oil-rich cities of Kirkuk and Mosul.
2. While passing through this enclave Turkish troops will show respect to the Kurdish sovereignty, thereby also conferring tacit recognition.
3. The Turkish contingents will seize control of the two oil-rich cities with the support of Iraqi ethnic Turkmen units, who will have revolted against Saddam Hussein’s regime. For the moment, the Kurds will not press claims to the oilfields.
4. Turkey will then proceed to create an autonomous Turkmen entity stretching from northern to central Iraq up to Baghdad.
5. The United States and Turkey will foster political, defensive and economic cooperation between the Kurdish and Turkmen self-governing provinces and guarantee their security. This clause indicates that a portion of northern Iraq’s oil revenues will be channelled to the Kurdish province.