Turkey Seeks ‘Interdependence’ With Iraqi Kurdistan
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Kurdistan Regional Government Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami (R) shakes hands with Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz during a joint news conference in Erbil, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, May 20,2012. Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region expects to start exporting oil from its fields along a new pipeline to the Turkish border when the line is complete in August 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Azad Lashkari)
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“Turkey’s policy is to strengthen economic interdependence with Iraqi Kurds, not to leverage them to independence,” a prominent Turkish official told Al-Monitor.
As Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to bring a closure to Turkey’s Kurdish issue once and for all, his policy also comes under the scrutiny of the neighboring countries.
Turkey has long been vexed by the aspirations for self-determination of the Kurdish people both inside its borders and in neighboring countries.
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