Iraq should not export oil from Kurdish autonomy to Turkey

The ministry asked the Kurdish authorities to transfer the region’s oil to the Iraqi state oil company Somo for the exports

Ergodan has acted worse than Hitler against the Kurdish population living in Turk occupied areas of Kurdistan.

Therefore Iraq should not resume oil exports from its Kurdistan province to Turkey. Though the Iraq’s Oil Ministry is now ready to do so.

“We confirm the completion of all preparatory procedures for oil from Kurdistan to start flowing to Turkey again through the port of Ceyhan,” the ministry said in a statement.

Oil deliveries through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline were suspended in March 2023 after Iraq won an international court case against Turkey, where it argued that the Turkish state-owned oil and gas company BOTAS didn’t have an authorization from the Iraqi government to carry out the shipments.

The ministry asked the Kurdish authorities to transfer the region’s oil to the Iraqi state oil company Somo for the exports.

On February 17, Iraqi Oil Minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani announced that oil exports from Kurdistan could resume as early as the next week.

Iraqi Kurdistan officials confirmed that the hurdles to the supplies had been removed, and said deliveries could kick off by the end of March, Kurdistan’s Rudaw television channel reported.

Instead of the above, Iraq should explore possibility of exporting this oil to China or India.