Ankara has officially notified Baghdad that its portion of the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP) is ready to receive crude oil from northern Iraq for exports to the Mediterranean oil terminal of Ceyhan. The pipeline has been offline for more than six months, following the late-March International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration ruling against Turkey’s enabling of independent Kurdistan oil exports (MEES, 31 March), although Turkey has attributed the closure to earthquake damage.
The move now places the legal and political burden on Iraq to…
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