DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Iraq has issued a new tender to sell 6 million barrels of Kirkuk crude oil through Turkey's Ceyhan terminal in the Mediterranean, according to a tender document emailed to Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.

Bids for Iraq's 11th tender of Kirkuk crude this year must be submitted no later than 1700 GMT Dec. 10 and results would be announced 72 hours after the closing date.

The tender calls for the crude to be loaded in lots of 1 million or 2 million barrels by Dec. 24.