Kirkuk and the Ottoman-Safavid Conflict Over Iraq in the 17th Century

Abstract

The Ottoman-Safavi conflict over Iraq has spanned more than three centuries. as a result of, inter alia, the two States' strategy to control the East after their increased strength, as well as the territorial differences of Iraq's eastern and north-eastern border region and the securing of their respective borders by both States in addition to the economic reasons for seeking and controlling the methods of trade of the Silk Road, In addition to the theoretical reason employed by the two States for political purposes and Kirkuk's share of this conflict in the seventeenth century was among the border areas that constituted conflicts, wars, calm and other peace treaties.