Turkey Terminates Iraqi Oil Export Agreement: Reasons and Consequences
... geopolitical shifts in the region. Turkey's New Strategy in the Region: Oil, Security and International Routes Fahil Abdulbasit Abdulkareem: Relationship in Crisis: Identifying Strategies for Kurdistan and Iraq to Re-establish Cooperation in the Context of Energy Dependency Iraq agreed to use Turkey to transport some of its oil from the Kurdish north (now known as the Iraqi Kurdistan Region) due to strategic and economic reasons. Oil exports through the Persian Gulf were disrupted during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), but the deal was successful in expanding Iraq's strategic alternatives for oil exporting. Turkey ...