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Turkey is negotiating with Iraq to fully utilize the Kurdistan-Ceyhan oil pipeline and extend their agreement, which expires ...
Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said a proposed new energy agreement between Turkey and Iraq must include a mechanism to ensure the full use of the oil pipeline between the two countries.
Turkey lost nearly $250 million per year from the halt of crude exports via the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline but the loss is dwarfed by the benefits Ankara is expected to reap from a mega rail project ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraq-Turkey pipeline has surpassed its lifespan and will require “costly” renovation if the Kurdistan Region’s long-stalled oil exports are to resume, an energy advisor ...
Turkey has submitted a draft proposal to Iraq to renew and expand an energy agreement between the two countries to include cooperation in oil, gas, petrochemicals and electricity, an Iraqi oil ...
Turkey is seeking to renegotiate its long-standing agreement with Iraq for the oil pipeline from Kurdistan to Ceyhan, which ...
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq, the first ...
The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the ...
A Turkish opposition party delegation has arrived in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist movement in Turkey.
Turkey is determined to prevent a repetition of the 1984-99 guerrilla war with the separatist PKK, in which it suffered more than 30,000 deaths. It has mobilized a large force on its Iraqi border ...
Turkey's cooperation is key in a possible U.S. war with Iraq and diplomats have said that if the U.S. is not allowed to use Turkish bases, its war plans could be disrupted.