Official: Northern Iraq Oil To Flow Through Turkey

Oil controlled by Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government will flow to international markets via Turkey, Turkey's energy minister said Friday.



A meeting Wednesday between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kurdish region Prime Minister Necirvan Barzani was very positive, the energy minister, Taner Yildiz said.



Officials have said that at least 100,000 barrels of oil per day will flow through Turkey.



Yildiz said that Iraqi President Masoud Barzani and Ashti Hawrami, natural resources minister of Iraq, were also working on the issue, and this was an important step for Turkey and for the stability of region.



Currently almost 1.5 million barrels of oil are stored in Ceyhan, in southern Turkey, awaiting Baghdad's approval to be exported. 



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