"Railway Connects Mosul to Istanbul
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A railway connecting Mosul to Gaziantep facilitated the first train journey between the two cities since the 1980s. From Gaziantep, the train connects to Istanbul and onward to Berlin; from Mosul, the train connects to Baghdad. The train route was first thought up as a project between Germany and the Ottoman Empire. Yigal Schleifer links the train to Turkey's recent 'zero problems' foreign policy, which has included building closer relationships with the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq and Syria. Though portrayals of Turkish foreign policy as 'neo-Ottoman' are a bit played up in the Western media sometimes, there could hardly be a more symbolic government-led venture. From the BBC:"
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