Today, Wednesday, Fourteen Kurdish parties in Kirkuk, including the PUK and other parties, sent a memorandum of protest to the three branches of the Iraqi government, the United Nations, and the US Embassy in Baghdad regarding the security, administrative and social status of the Kurds in Kirkuk.

The Kurdish parties said in their seven-point memorandum that the presence of a large number of military bases in the city without any legal excuses is an "uncivilized phenomenon" and has disturbed normal life in the city.

"The continuous raids on Kurdish neighborhoods at night have displaced Kurds in Kirkuk," the parties said in a statement. Since the 2017 Kurdistan region independence referendum, Peshmerga forces lost control of Kirkuk to Iraq security forces, and they have often caused trouble for Kurds in the city. Military intervention in Kirkuk administration departments has left hundreds of Kurdish officials removed from their jobs.

The memorandum also states that the military intervention [popular mobilization forces PMF] in support of a particular ethnic group to deprive Kurds of their agricultural land that falls within the premises of article 140 of the Iraqi constitution has caused ethnic conflict among village farmers.

Iraqi security forces have prevented many Kurdish farmers in the disputed territories from watering or farming their lands, with many stripped of their property and its ownership relocated to Arabs and Turkmens.

The Kurdish groups also described violations against the Kurds and policies aiming to alter Kirkuk's demography against the Kurds as intolerable and explained that such acts were against the conditionally supported committee to carry out article 140.

To dilute Kirkuk's majority,  records of Arabs born and residents elsewhere in the country are transferred. The maneuver has allowed authorities to confiscate and hand over to Arabs and Turkmens huge tracts of Kurdish-owned land.