s Kurdistan Regional Government

Turkey appears to be hoping that its bombing this week of Sinjar in Iraq and Rojava in northern Syria will enable it to intervene in those countries on a larger scale.

The flow of crude oil from northern Iraq?s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) via Turkey?s Ceyhan Port has reached up to 650,000 barrels a day, from only around 2,300 barrels last March, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z has said. 

Whenever you ask diplomatic sources about U.S.-Turkey relations, the kind of answer you get is usually about the ?absence of any problems.?

Some 230 Peshmerga forces of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have been trained by Turkish soldiers so far in northern Iraq, a senior Turkish Foreign Ministry official has told the Hürriyet Daily News.

Turkey has been providing “subsidiary” military training for the Peshmerga forces and the process will continue for as long as necessary, according to the official.

Iraqi Kurds have reached a critical point by starting to sell their own oil as well as making an accord with the Baghdad government, says Genel Energy chief Tony Hayward Kurds have created a real chance to make income for themselves by selling their own oil in Iraq and they will probably make more money by selling their own gas, Tony Hayward, the head of Genel Energy, one of the largest compan