Türkiye looking for golden points in Iraq

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, holding the second joint security meeting between Turkish and Iraqi officials It is an event that received wide coverage in Ankara newspapers and television channels. Because 3 important officials of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s team, including Ibrahim Kalen, the head of the Met Intelligence Service, General Yashar Güler, the Minister of Defense, and Hakan Fidan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, attended the meeting in Baghdad. The country shows that the effort to increase economic cooperation goes parallel to cooperation in the field of security.

Some radical newspapers in favor of the Justice and Development Party, including Yeni Birlik, in the headline and photo of today’s edition, have made the claim that in the Thursday meeting, a joint military operation against the terrorist group PKK It has been agreed. But in Akhbar and Iraqi media reports and Baghdad officials’ statements, nothing like this is mentioned.

Güler, Kalen, Fidan triangle

Ankara announced that the trip 3. The important face of Erdoğan’s team to Baghdad and their presence in the joint security meeting with the Iraqi authorities is to try to reach a suitable form and model for fighting the PKK or the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party and dealing with terrorist threats.

The most important article of the 7-article joint statement was to adopt a common position against the presence and activity of the PKK in Iraq. In this paragraph, it is mentioned that the PKK is a security threat to Turkey and Iraq and the presence of this group in the territory of Iraq means a violation of the Iraqi constitution.

The Iraqi authorities have once again announced that In their view, the PKK is a group that is not allowed to do any kind of activity, and Ankara has also announced that it will end the presence of the PKK in this country with the cooperation of Iraqi security.

P.K. .K, which is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, has been stationed in northern Iraq since the 1980s. In recent years, this terrorist group has expanded to southern regions such as Sulaymaniyah and Assos and is trying to expand its influence. From now on, the two countries will continue to fight against terrorist threats through a joint permanent committee.

It took 5 months to reach this security agreement and Ibrahim Kalin and Hakan Fidan have already done the preparations. They have traveled to Baghdad and Erbil 4 times in the last few months.

Meaningful synchronicity of the visit of the Turkish delegation to Iraq

In the Baghdad meeting, preparations for the official trip Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Iraq after the holy month of Ramadan was discussed and the parties confirmed that all efforts will be made to make this trip a success. To Iraq, what agreements will be signed between Ankara and Baghdad. But the evidence shows that Erdogan’s most important motive for meeting with Iraqi government officials is to speed up the project called “Development Road”, which wants to connect the Iraqi port of Basra to the port of Mersin and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea through Turkish territory.

Erdogan has already visited Erbil in the Kurdistan Region as the Prime Minister of Turkey, but it has not yet been announced whether he will go to this city in the future.

This issue is important because Let’s remember that Erbil and Dohuk are the two provinces of the Barzani party and family, which has many political, oil and business relations with Erdogan’s government, but Sulaymaniyah is the territory of the so-called Patriotic Union party, which is run by the son of the late Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani.

From the point of view of Erdoğan government officials, Erbil has conflict and tension with the PKK, but Sulaymaniyah has stable and important relations with the PKK, and this has caused even in yesterday’s meeting Hakan Fidan asked the Iraqi authorities to give the necessary notice to Bafel Talabani in this case.

Turkey is looking for oil

The Iraqi government filed an official lawsuit regarding the illegal sale of oil This country caused Turkey to have the court rule in favor of the central government of Baghdad and a large fine for Turkey. Since then and to be exact, from March 25, 2023, oil exports to Turkey has suspended the Kurdistan region. But now Erdoğan’s team is seeking to obtain the consent of the Baghdad government to export oil again. But this issue has become an internal issue between Baghdad and Erbil, and according to the budget law, the Kurdistan Region must produce 400,000 barrels of oil per day for export or Domestic consumption should be delivered to Baghdad. As a result, even if the export of oil from the Kurdistan region to Turkey starts again, this transaction will be done under the direct supervision of the Iraqi government, and the oil money will be directly deposited into the treasury of Baghdad.

On Thursday, February 15, 2024, Ali Abdul Sattar, a member of the Oil and Gas Committee of the Iraqi Parliament, told reporters: The Kurdistan Region will probably resume oil exports through the Turkish port within a month or two. /p>

Iraqi Oil Minister Hayan Abdul Ghani also told reporters before the visit of Turkish officials to Baghdad that the negotiations between the Iraqi Oil Ministry and international oil companies active in the Kurdistan region have progressed.

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