Erdogan’s imminent visit to Iraq after 13 years

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will go to Baghdad and then to Erbil on Monday. It has been 12 years since Erdogan’s last visit to Iraq.

Turkish Defense Minister Yashar Güler said referring to Erdogan’s visit to Iraq: “For the first time We will sign a strategic agreement in the relations between the two countries.”

He added regarding the presence of PKK in Iraq: “Iraqi friends We did not declare the PKK a terrorist organization, but for the first time they accepted a term close to it. The Foreign Ministry held a security meeting together with Defense Minister Yashar Güler and Ibrahim Kalin, head of the Turkish Intelligence Organization, in Baghdad.

The strategic agreement between Iraq and Turkey added: “In this agreement, the creation of a huge area up to a distance of 30 kilometers from Iraqi territory will be included in order to clear the two areas of “Gara” and “Qandil” from PKK members.”

Also, Recep Tayyip Erdogan considered the issue of water, gas and oil important regarding his visit to Iraq.

Taher al-Jubouri, a member of the Agriculture Commission of the Iraqi Parliament, in reference to the visit of the Turkish delegation, considers the possibility of signing a water protocol between the two countries strong.

He said in an interview with Baghdad Al-Youm news website: “Economy and water will be the two main issues of this trip. Erdogan sees the “development road” as a factor to revive the Turkish economy. “Baghdad is actively seeking to sign a comprehensive protocol on the water issue, which will guarantee Iraq’s right to equitably supply the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates.”

In the past months, Mohsen al-Mandlawi, the deputy speaker of the Iraqi parliament, and Numan Kurtolmoş, the speaker of the Turkish parliament, about They had agreed to activate the Joint Committee on Water and Security.

It is expected that in the visit of the Turkish President to Iraq, in addition to the development and crisis road cases Water, issues such as oil export of the Kurdistan region and the crisis of the presidency of the Iraqi parliament should be discussed. Iraqi media predict that 40 memorandums will be signed between the parties.

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