Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan sign ‘landmark’ oil and gas contracts

Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan sign ‘landmark’ oil and gas contracts
Fri Nov 29, 2013 12:54:33

Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan have signed a package of landmark contracts that will see the semi-autonomous region's oil and gas shipped to international markets via pipelines through Turkey, sources close to the deal say.

The sources told Reuters on Friday the deals were signed during Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani's three hour-long meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday.

The move is likely to further infuriate Baghdad, which said late on Thursday that any energy deal with Kurdistan would be "an encroachment on the sovereignty of Iraq".

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