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Navigating Complexities: The New Kurdistan Oil Export Agreement

Key Factors Influencing the Future of Kurdistan's Oil Deal Following a two-and-a-half-year pause, Iraqi federal authorities and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are marking an agreement to resume oil exports via Turkey. An obvious prerequisite to addressing long-standing disagreements over civil servant salaries in the semi-autonomous region is the agreement, which permits crude pumped in Iraqi Kurdistan to flow northward under federal supervision. The agreement is precarious, though, as observers caution that specifics that have not yet been revealed could cause the agreement to fall apart. In a post on Twitter/X on September 25, Iraqi ...

15.10.2025

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Turkey Terminates Iraqi Oil Export Agreement: Reasons and Consequences

... 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 ...

19.08.2025

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