Iraqi authorities revealed Saturday that Baghdad has won an global arbitration case that will stop oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdish area by method of Turkey
BEIRUT — Iraqi authorities revealed Saturday that Baghdad has won an worldwide arbitration case that will stop oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdish area by method of Turkey.
Officials in Baghdad and Irbil, the seat of the Kurdish local federalgovernment, have long been at chances over sharing of oil earnings. In 2014, the Kurdish area chose to unilaterally export oil through an independent pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Baghdad called the relocation “smuggling” and “robbery” and submitted a case versus Turkey in the International Court of Arbitration, arguing that Turkey was breaking the arrangements of the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline arrangement signed in 1973.
The main federalgovernment thinksabout it unlawful for Irbil to export oil without going through the Iraqi