RE: RNS 23/416 May 2020 14:00
The Prize describes Baba Gurgur being guarded by Kurdish tribes ,clearly a Kurdish area then I have read in several places Kirkuk used to be the capital of the Kurds.
Kurds have a long history in Kirkuk before the Baban family. The Baban family was a Kurdish family that, in the 18th and 19th centuries, dominated the political life of the province of Sharazor, in present-day Iraqi Kurdistan. The first member of the clan to gain control of the province and its capital, Kirkuk, was Sulayman Beg. Enjoying almost full autonomy, the Baban family established Kirkuk as their capital. It was from this time that Kurds in Iraq began to view Kirkuk as their capital. This persisted even after the Babans moved their administration to the new town of Sulaymaniya, named after the dynasty's founder, in the late 18th century.[88]
I take it you are a Iraqi from the Sth from your stance.