How Turkey's ironic oil ties with Iraqi Kurdistan will affect the rest of the region
Published October 3rd, 2013 - 10:26 GMT via SyndiGate.info
The oil wealth of the Iraqi Kurdistan enclave makes it one of the most vulnerable political entities in the Middle East.
Turkey imports $50 billion in oil and gas, has fought and won a civil war with the secessionist Kurdish PKK in its eastern Anatolian provinces and dominates the foreign trade, construction and energy transport routes of the landlocked Kurdish enclave in Iraq created in the aftermath of Desert Storm in 1991.
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