Turkey’s close ties with Iraqi Kurdistan irritate the United States
Turkey’s close ties with Iraqi Kurdistan irritate the United States
Saturday, February 16, 2013 11:25
Translation / Baghdadiya News / .. Male International News Pakistan that Turkey is proceeding with plans to expand economic cooperation with the Kurdistan region of Iraq, ignoring warnings from the United States that this approach will lead to the disintegration of Iraq.
He continued the newspaper report, seen by The translated / Baghdadiya News / has said political analyst at the Center for Research in the Turkish capital Ankara Jalaluddin Yavuz “We have tomorrow Kurdistan region is very important for Turkey in terms of economic and political, prompting Ankara to risk igniting tensions with the United States ally most important “. Said Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said in a press statement that “imports of oil from the Kurdistan region to Turkey by truck has resumed again after a hiatus for two weeks due to technical reasons.”
The minister added that “Turkey is determined to sell oil products to Iraqi Kurdistan,” which considers the central government was illegal at the time denies Ankara that has emphasized Turkey’s energy minister said, “that Turkey buys oil also from southern Iraq because the work otherwise be considered discriminatory.”
Responsible Americans, for their part are concerned that tensions between Ankara and Baghdad will have implications for the rest of the region at the time said the Kurdistan Regional Government last week that it plans to move forward in building a pipeline to export crude oil to Turkey, where he said Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region drastically “We want to have our own oil line.”
He said Turkish Prime Minister Raja Tayyip Erdogan said his country is obliged to wait for a new agreement between the Iraqi central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on the export of oil despite the fact that Washington wants Ankara to be cautious in this regard. Erdogan continued by saying that “our economic relationship with widening Kurdistan despite everything, including America.”
Erdogan, who was keen to develop close ties with the United States explicitly recognized the existence of tensions with Washington in regards to this issue. Finished / 21
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