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US Adviser: Turkey Exercises Almost Complete Control Over The Oil And Gas Sector In Kurdistan
POLITICIAN 2022/07/26 | 6:46 PM
Information / translation.
A report by the British newspaper The National confirmed, on Tuesday, that the Turkish aggressive bombing of a tourist resort in northern Iraq, which killed nine people and wounded more than 20 people, sparked a wave of anger in the Iraqi arena.
The report, translated by Al-Maalouma Agency, stated that
"this Iraqi anger, which described the Turkish aggression as a flagrant violation of Iraqi sovereignty, may soon force a change in their complex and sometimes tense bilateral relations, as Iraqi frustrations with Turkey are deep-rooted and multidimensional." He explained that
"the Turkish president benefited from his relations with Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, to conclude an agreement in 2013 that would enable the Kurdistan Regional Government to export the region's oil to Turkey without interference from the central government, as
Baghdad and many Iraqis saw that the agreement was problematic from the beginning, with the possibility of Encouraging more separatist rule in the Kurdish region.”
More recently, while Europe is working to distance itself from Russian gas, there have been reports that the Kurdistan Regional Government will soon agree to export natural gas to the European Union via Turkey, despite a court decision issued last February that granted Baghdad control over Kurdistan’s energy resources, which led to the withdrawal of many major foreign companies, yet Erdoğan again in April expressed his support for the gas deal, underlining Turkey’s sense of advantage.
For his part, the Director of Iraq Affairs in the National Security Council during the era of US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Douglas Oliphant, said that
“Turkey exercises almost complete control over the oil and gas sector in the Kurdistan region, as it owns pipelines inside Turkey and the export port in Ceyhan.”
The report stated that
“the Turkish presence in Kurdistan has grown sharply in the past two decades as Ankara now maintains about 40 military bases and observation posts in Iraq, including as far south as Erbil, 75 kilometers south of the Turkish border.” And he indicated that
“Turkey was even interfering politically in Iraq, as it established a Turkmen political party in Iraq to confront the pro-Kurdish policies within the Kurdistan Regional Government, and
Turkey recently developed the so-called Nineveh Guard, as it is widely believed that the decisions of the Sunni bloc in the Iraqi parliament have the support of Turkey.
In recent years, Iraq has also been placed at a significant disadvantage in terms of water resources, which reflects the amount and size of Turkish interventions in Iraqi politics and economy. finished/ 25 z
US Adviser: Turkey Exercises Almost Complete Control Over The Oil And Gas Sector In Kurdistan
POLITICIAN 2022/07/26 | 6:46 PM
Information / translation.
A report by the British newspaper The National confirmed, on Tuesday, that the Turkish aggressive bombing of a tourist resort in northern Iraq, which killed nine people and wounded more than 20 people, sparked a wave of anger in the Iraqi arena.
The report, translated by Al-Maalouma Agency, stated that
"this Iraqi anger, which described the Turkish aggression as a flagrant violation of Iraqi sovereignty, may soon force a change in their complex and sometimes tense bilateral relations, as Iraqi frustrations with Turkey are deep-rooted and multidimensional." He explained that
"the Turkish president benefited from his relations with Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, to conclude an agreement in 2013 that would enable the Kurdistan Regional Government to export the region's oil to Turkey without interference from the central government, as
Baghdad and many Iraqis saw that the agreement was problematic from the beginning, with the possibility of Encouraging more separatist rule in the Kurdish region.”
More recently, while Europe is working to distance itself from Russian gas, there have been reports that the Kurdistan Regional Government will soon agree to export natural gas to the European Union via Turkey, despite a court decision issued last February that granted Baghdad control over Kurdistan’s energy resources, which led to the withdrawal of many major foreign companies, yet Erdoğan again in April expressed his support for the gas deal, underlining Turkey’s sense of advantage.
For his part, the Director of Iraq Affairs in the National Security Council during the era of US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Douglas Oliphant, said that
“Turkey exercises almost complete control over the oil and gas sector in the Kurdistan region, as it owns pipelines inside Turkey and the export port in Ceyhan.”
The report stated that
“the Turkish presence in Kurdistan has grown sharply in the past two decades as Ankara now maintains about 40 military bases and observation posts in Iraq, including as far south as Erbil, 75 kilometers south of the Turkish border.” And he indicated that
“Turkey was even interfering politically in Iraq, as it established a Turkmen political party in Iraq to confront the pro-Kurdish policies within the Kurdistan Regional Government, and
Turkey recently developed the so-called Nineveh Guard, as it is widely believed that the decisions of the Sunni bloc in the Iraqi parliament have the support of Turkey.
In recent years, Iraq has also been placed at a significant disadvantage in terms of water resources, which reflects the amount and size of Turkish interventions in Iraqi politics and economy. finished/ 25 z
