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  1. #11
    PKK announced the collapse of the peace process in Turkey
    10-11-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Erbil: Shirzad Shikhani of the
    Co-Chair declared for the leadership of the PKK «the end of the peace process launched by the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, its mission in the festival of Nowruz this year», adding that «stages of this process is over, it's time to advance Turkey steps real move towards signing an agreement in this regard, or bury the whole process, criticizing the Iranian policy to deal with the Kurdish issue both within Iran and Turkey.
    Jameel said Pike from his Mount Qandil in remarks quoted by the agency «Firat News» closeup of the party: «The peace process between the party and Turkey have collapsed, it's time to sign the agreement, and without it, the party at the time of confirming the commitment statements and the statements of its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, , it announced that phase has ended peace ». He added: «The movements in the region in recent times did not come by chance, but there are planned Iranian-Turkish to rearrange the map of the region, Vhmlat penalty, which began to escalate in Iran's recent period against members of the party, PJAK Kurdish, came after the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister of Turkey and the normalization of relations the two countries, Iran is looking forward to the return of the fighting between our party and Turkey, and that there are signals we receive through the intensification of moves regional and mutual visits between Iran, Iraq and Turkey show that there are efforts to regional to redraw the map, but we affirm that these attempts will not succeed absence of the role of the PKK ».
    In connection with the leading exporter Mount Qandil said the «Middle East» that «remarks Pike comes after several warnings addressed to our party to Turkey need to progress concrete steps on the path to achieve peace, and issued him is a natural product of procrastination Turkish government and the retreat from commitments beam reform and opening-up Kurdish issue in Turkey, there is no meaning at all for the continuation of peace process Turkey is seeking all efforts to make it fail by not responding to the demands of the actor process is our party, and in light of the continued denial of the Turkish existence of the Kurdish people, فالحلول prosthetic does not benefit resolving a major issue size of the Kurdish issue in the region ».
    These developments come under international conference is important in Turkey to search for radical solutions to the Kurdish issue in the region, which began its work yesterday in the capital Ankara and was attended by representatives of the leadership of main parties in the Kurdistan Region of them Azad جندياني politburo member of the Patriotic Union led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and dominated Hawrami a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) led by regional president Massoud Barzani and Dr. Yusuf Mohamed representative of the MDC led by Kurdish political Mustafa Nushirwan.
    And threw Azad جندياني speech at the conference stressed during which the importance of finding the definition of a clear and specific to the Kurdish issue, pointing out that «countries in the region that share the territory of Kurdistan, each with a specific definition of the issue that had occupied the region since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Treaty of Sykes-Picot». The جندياني that «the Kurdish issue is still suffering from the loss of scientific definition and clear constitutional including pave the way for a road map specific to be addressed, and short, the Kurdish issue in the Middle East is a national issue, and that once published some of the concepts of democracy, citizenship, the issue of this magnitude can not be resolved, and it is not permissible for the state to deal with this issue from the perspective of the national security of the state, but as part of state formation. He pointed out that «the process of opening up the Turkish Kurdish issue, which began at the hands of the ruling Justice and Development headed by Mr. Erdogan, though they moved the situation somewhat, but faced the same dilemma of identity and identification, and today has become the Kurdish issue of the most important issues and the first in the region, and has achieved significant progress in several parts, and became occupies a location on a map of the world's energy, it's time to change the region's countries, not Turkey and Iraq only, its position on this issue and do not see it as a threat to the security of nations, but must operate these countries to provide opportunities resolved because the guarantee of security and stability in the region in general » .
    In the same context the eyes of Kurdish forces and parties to convene a national conference in Arbil, Kurdish, and the complexity of the Higher Preparatory Committee meeting today to resolve the deadline for holding the conference in 24 of the current month. The committee had identified several earlier dates for the conference but the preoccupation with the political forces of the recent parliamentary elections and disputes over representation within the conference off so far without agreement on a date to be fixed combines upon all parties, and therefore the Supreme Committee will decide this matter today when added.

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  2. #12
    PKK announced the collapse of the peace process in Turkey
    10-11-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Erbil: Shirzad Shikhani of the
    Co-Chair declared for the leadership of the PKK «the end of the peace process launched by the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, its mission in the festival of Nowruz this year», adding that «stages of this process is over, it's time to advance Turkey steps real move towards signing an agreement in this regard, or bury the whole process, criticizing the Iranian policy to deal with the Kurdish issue both within Iran and Turkey.
    Jameel said Pike from his Mount Qandil in remarks quoted by the agency «Firat News» closeup of the party: «The peace process between the party and Turkey have collapsed, it's time to sign the agreement, and without it, the party at the time of confirming the commitment statements and the statements of its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, , it announced that phase has ended peace ». He added: «The movements in the region in recent times did not come by chance, but there are planned Iranian-Turkish to rearrange the map of the region, Vhmlat penalty, which began to escalate in Iran's recent period against members of the party, PJAK Kurdish, came after the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister of Turkey and the normalization of relations the two countries, Iran is looking forward to the return of the fighting between our party and Turkey, and that there are signals we receive through the intensification of moves regional and mutual visits between Iran, Iraq and Turkey show that there are efforts to regional to redraw the map, but we affirm that these attempts will not succeed absence of the role of the PKK ».
    In connection with the leading exporter Mount Qandil said the «Middle East» that «remarks Pike comes after several warnings addressed to our party to Turkey need to progress concrete steps on the path to achieve peace, and issued him is a natural product of procrastination Turkish government and the retreat from commitments beam reform and opening-up Kurdish issue in Turkey, there is no meaning at all for the continuation of peace process Turkey is seeking all efforts to make it fail by not responding to the demands of the actor process is our party, and in light of the continued denial of the Turkish existence of the Kurdish people, فالحلول prosthetic does not benefit resolving a major issue size of the Kurdish issue in the region ».
    These developments come under international conference is important in Turkey to search for radical solutions to the Kurdish issue in the region, which began its work yesterday in the capital Ankara and was attended by representatives of the leadership of main parties in the Kurdistan Region of them Azad جندياني politburo member of the Patriotic Union led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and dominated Hawrami a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) led by regional president Massoud Barzani and Dr. Yusuf Mohamed representative of the MDC led by Kurdish political Mustafa Nushirwan.
    And threw Azad جندياني speech at the conference stressed during which the importance of finding the definition of a clear and specific to the Kurdish issue, pointing out that «countries in the region that share the territory of Kurdistan, each with a specific definition of the issue that had occupied the region since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Treaty of Sykes-Picot». The جندياني that «the Kurdish issue is still suffering from the loss of scientific definition and clear constitutional including pave the way for a road map specific to be addressed, and short, the Kurdish issue in the Middle East is a national issue, and that once published some of the concepts of democracy, citizenship, the issue of this magnitude can not be resolved, and it is not permissible for the state to deal with this issue from the perspective of the national security of the state, but as part of state formation. He pointed out that «the process of opening up the Turkish Kurdish issue, which began at the hands of the ruling Justice and Development headed by Mr. Erdogan, though they moved the situation somewhat, but faced the same dilemma of identity and identification, and today has become the Kurdish issue of the most important issues and the first in the region, and has achieved significant progress in several parts, and became occupies a location on a map of the world's energy, it's time to change the region's countries, not Turkey and Iraq only, its position on this issue and do not see it as a threat to the security of nations, but must operate these countries to provide opportunities resolved because the guarantee of security and stability in the region in general » .
    In the same context the eyes of Kurdish forces and parties to convene a national conference in Arbil, Kurdish, and the complexity of the Higher Preparatory Committee meeting today to resolve the deadline for holding the conference in 24 of the current month. The committee had identified several earlier dates for the conference but the preoccupation with the political forces of the recent parliamentary elections and disputes over representation within the conference off so far without agreement on a date to be fixed combines upon all parties, and therefore the Supreme Committee will decide this matter today when added.

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  3. #13
    Iraq participates in the preparatory meeting of the Conference of the Geneva 2
    10/11/2013 13:15:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / Iraqi Foreign Ministry Undersecretary for Legal Affairs and multilateral Mohammed Jawad Al-Dorki headed Iraq's delegation to the preparatory meeting of the Conference of Geneva 2, on the Syrian crisis, which was held in Geneva in the presence of the Joint Special Representative of the Secretary -General of the United Nations and the Arab League, Lakhdar Brahimi.

    Al-Dorki in his word during the conference, according to a Foreign Ministry statement showed: "Iraq's vision, calling for the need to find a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis, based on the agreement of all parties, and through a specific timetable.

    The statement pointed out that "the Iraqi delegation to the meeting, which was attended by representatives of the five permanent members and the neighboring countries of Syria, included the permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Ambassador Mohammad Sabir Ismail and Iraq's ambassador in Brussels, Mohammed Humamdi.

    https://www.ninanews.com/english/News...ar95_VQ=GKLLKI

  4. #14
    Britain’s Only Kurdish MP: Kurdistan a Beacon of Hope for Region
    November 9, 2013

    By Sharmila Devi

    LONDON - Kurdistan is a “forgotten victim” in the Syrian conflict as it struggles to host up to a quarter of a million Syrian refugees with little recognition from the outside world, Nadhim Zahawi, the first and only Kurd to be elected to the British parliament, told Rudaw.

    Zahawi voted in favor of UK military action in August to deter the use of chemical weapons in Syria but the Conservative-led coalition’s motion was defeated. He said then that the result had “let down the innocent people of Syria.”

    “The KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) is the forgotten victim of this massive migration of human beings from Syria,” he said in an interview at Portcullis House, the complex of offices for MPs and their staff opposite the British parliament.

    “People pay attention to the refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq is sometimes mentioned but not the KRG, which has taken in around 240,000 people. The KRG has done this because as Kurds we are all refugees, we know their pain and don’t want to let them down.”

    People pay attention to the refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq is sometimes mentioned but not the KRG, which has taken in around 240,000 people.

    Zahawi was recently promoted by David Cameron, UK prime minister, with the portfolio of business and trade on the government’s policy board based in Downing Street.

    He was born in 1967 in Baghdad to Kurdish parents, who fled Saddam Hussein in 1978. His grandfather, after whom he is named, was governor of the Central Bank of Iraq. “His signature was on the banknotes,” said Zahawi.

    In 2000, he co-founded the polling and market research firm YouGov, which was floated on the stock market for 18 million pounds in 2005.

    He entered parliament as the MP for Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare, in 2010.

    The British government’s defeat on Syria was embarrassing. But few commentators believe the opposition Labour party was able to garner any lasting benefit in terms of public support after preventing military action.

    “The focus must now be on Geneva,” said Zahawi, referring to the efforts that were made to bring Syrians together at a peace conference. Last Tuesday, diplomats meeting in Geneva failed to agree on a date for such a conference nor to clear obstacles, including who would represent the Syrian opposition and if the government of President Bashar Assad should play a role in the talks.

    Speaking soon after London hosted 11 foreign ministers in October to help to pave the way for a peace conference, Zahawi said there had been “unanimity” within the meeting that any solution for Syria would not include the Assad regime remaining in power.

    “It’s almost unthinkable that a regime that’s committed such brutality on its own people can be part of the future of that beleaguered country,” he said.

    “It will take a while to get some of the opposition parties together. The lesson of (Western intervention in) Iraq is we need to spend more time thinking about governance post-Assad. In the Syria debate, my counsel to colleagues is that we need to set aside the pains of 2003 in Iraq.”

    He describes Syria as the “photographic negative of Iraq,” because both countries have large minority populations of Kurds and Christians. But in Syria it is the Sunnis who, according to the MP, form the historically oppressed majority.

    It’s almost unthinkable that a regime that’s committed such brutality on its own people can be part of the future of that beleaguered country,

    He has also called for Syria’s post-revolution future to end discrimination against the Kurds, to include compensation for Kurds affected by the Arabisation policies of the Baath regime, and the release of all political prisoners.

    Zahawi maintains close ties with Kurdistan through acting as advisor to his family’s myriad businesses there, including steel, property, and oil and gas services. In the UK, he is co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Kurdistan.

    After stressing that he does not wish to be seen interfering in the internal affairs of the KRG, as a true believer in Conservative values he does offer the advice that greater “competition” in politics as well as business, along with “transparency,” would help to resolve the dissatisfaction felt by ordinary Kurds.

    He described Kurdistan as having a healthy democracy and that, even with its problems, it remained a “beacon of hope” for the region. “As an outsider I don’t want to preach, but as a Kurd and an investor, I can say the best protection for the consumer is competition and transparency.”

    Diary permitting, he tries to keep close ties with the Kurdish diaspora, saying they had an “important role to play” in building a vibrant civic life in Kurdistan.

    “I’m very proud of what the KRG has achieved. Of course, mistakes have been made, but my colleagues here are aware the Kurds are a positive story and that’s good,” he said. “Kurds have migrated all around the world and everyone has something to give.”

    https://rudaw.net/english/world/09112013

  5. #15
    Maliki's office denies the news of the assassination attempt future does not preclude access!

    10-11-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Baghdad (Iraq) / Yousef Salman
    Preoccupied with the Iraqi street during the last 48 hours talking about what revealing the website of the Supreme Council of the Islamic led by Ammar al-Hakim foiled an attempt to overthrow the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his assassination, as suggested political circles and parliamentary credibility of that information in accordance with procedures tight security and campaigns of arbitrary arrests carried out by the rapid intervention forces (SWAT) on the outskirts of the capital Baghdad two days ago.
    In its first official comment, a source familiar denied in the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's 'future' yesterday (Saturday, November 9, 2013) the existence of such attempt and said that untrue the rumors about this or foiled attempt.
    The source (who declined to be named) that these reports are baseless and there is no assassination attempt or a coup was foiled recently, and pointed out that the purpose of stirring those rumors is to confuse the work of the government with the proximity of the election, but the same source returned to say that the coup Maliki or assassination attempt is what can be simpler and rumors ahead will be tougher and more influential.
    In the meantime linked to the existence of parliamentary circles trying to overthrow the government campaign of arbitrary arrests and raids carried out by the forces 'Swat' on the outskirts of the capital Baghdad two days ago.


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  6. #16
    Mullah leaders call: fabricating charges against others are no longer fools no matter how high your voice

    10-11-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Alsumaria News / Baghdad
    He expressed the leader of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue Haider Mulla, Sunday, was surprised by the statements of some leaders of the Dawa Party, who took up the political blocs responsibility for security failures, indicating that the fabrication of charges on others no longer deceive the people no matter how high their voice, while student cleared the security services of spoilers and militias and "integration".
    Mulla said in a statement issued today, and received "Alsumaria News", a copy of "We followed with amazement big statements by some leaders of the Dawa Party, who took responsibility for security failures of the political blocs by reducing the balance of the security ministries," noting that "the security needs of social justice Rest assured everyone effort and intelligence institutions based on professional and loyalty to the homeland is not loyalty to the person or the party. "
    Mullah considered that "the political history and fabrication charges on others no longer deceive the Iraqi people, no matter how sound in Hanagerkm", calling for "cleansing of the corrupt security services and militias and integration, rather than demanding an increase of the budget of the security ministries."
    The Mulla said that "the money that had been earmarked to increase the budget of these ministries were awarded mainly over the past six years, reaching allocations of the security ministries to more than seventy-five billion dollars," calling on the leaders of the Dawa Party, to "employ the funds to build the security services and the protection of the state and the people instead of احتكرها by the Office of the Commander in Chief of the armed forces for the protection of your authority inside the Green Zone. "
    The Committee of the parliamentary security and defense announced, (28 October 2013), its intention to withhold the allocations of the ministries of defense and internal security and the rest of the squad from next year's budget because of "the failure of such devices to provide security."
    It is noteworthy that al-Qaeda and other armed groups in Iraq have adopted in the last period on the method of car bombs and improvised explosive device targeting civilian populations, as well as targeting state institutions in an effort to confuse the general security situation, which resulted in the killing and wounding dozens of people.

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  7. #17
    Turkey unlikely to upset Iraq in KRG energy deal

    It is no secret, thanks to frequent leaks to the media, that energy cooperation between Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is continuing apace. This, however, has not broken the determination by both sides to maintain a low-key position on the subject. The sensitivity is due to strained ties between Baghdad, Ankara and Erbil over a number of issues, including the exploitation of northern Iraqi oil and gas.

    Summary⎙ Print Turkey’s energy initiatives with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are not likely to jeopardize a possible warming trend in Ankara-Baghdad ties.

    AuthorSemih IdizPosted November 8, 2013
    Translator(s)Ezgi Akin

    The KRG has been demanding an independent say over the gas and oil in its region, arguing that Baghdad has not honored its pledge to give the Iraqi Kurds their rightful share of Iraq’s oil revenues. Baghdad denies this and has declared the KRG’s stance illegal and dangerous in terms of Iraq’s territorial integrity.

    Baghdad has also accused Turkey of endangering Iraq’s territorial integrity through separate energy deals with the KRG, and has US support on this point. This, however, has not prevented energy cooperation between Turkey and the KRG. Turkish officials say if the United States is concerned, it should first convince the American oil giants Exxon and Chevron, who have also signed deals with the KRG.

    An exclusive Reuters report this week, citing unidentified official sources, also showed that Turkey and the KRG are pushing ahead with “a comprehensive package of deals” in the energy field. This package, reportedly agreed on during last week’s visit to Istanbul by KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, includes multibillion-dollar oil and gas pipelines between Turkey and northern Iraq.

    According to the Reuters report, these will enable the KRG to export some 2 million barrels per day of oil to world markets, and at least 10 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey annually when completed. The first pipeline is almost ready and should be pumping oil by the end of December. The next stage will be to pump northern Iraqi gas by pipeline as of December 2016. The technical details for a pipeline that will carry heavy oil between northern Iraq and Turkey are also said to have been mapped.

    Turkey is dependent on Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan to fuel its growing economy. It also imports liquefied natural gas from Nigeria and Algeria. The KRG’s vast reserves provide a new and cheaper source of energy that planners in Ankara cannot overlook.

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government remains strongly opposed to all agreements arrived at independently from Baghdad. It was interesting therefore that Nechirvan Barzani’s visit to Istanbul last week came only days after talks between Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari, in Ankara on Oct. 25.

    Those talks were designed to maintain the momentum in recent efforts to break the ice between the two countries following a period of tension during which Iraq accused Turkey of meddling in its affairs and destabilizing the country. Ankara in turn has been accusing the Maliki government of oppressing the minority Sunnis, and has US support on this point. Tensions have also been fueled by different positions on Syria.

    Davutoglu will visit Baghdad at the end of this month. There is also talk of visits by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Baghdad and Maliki to Ankara in the near future. Some diplomats in Ankara wonder if news of the energy deals clinched between Turkey and the KRG will unravel this attempt at rapprochement between the Erdogan and Maliki governments.

    The Maliki government is aware of the growing energy cooperation between Ankara and Erbil and still appears keen to patch up differences with Turkey. Meanwhile, the KRG and Baghdad have also been trying to patch up their differences, following a “seven-point agreement” signed in April in Baghdad by Nechirvan Barzani and Maliki.

    The agreement proposed, among other things, the forming of a committee to draft a law on oil and gas and a law on the distribution of these resources. The committee is also supposed to work on a draft law setting the administrative borders of provinces. This is a crucial issue for both sides, given their long-standing dispute over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, which has brought them the brink of conflict.

    The signing of this agreement was followed up with a rare visit by Maliki to Erbil in May and by KRG President Massoud Barzani to Baghdad in July. The agreement, however, still awaits implementation, signaling that full normalization is yet to be secured.

    Turkey also supports the agreement and Turkish officials have told Al-Monitor that contrary, to what is being claimed by some quarters, Ankara stands behind any step which enhances Iraq’s territorial integrity and stability. This is not mere rhetoric either, since Iraq’s dissolution as a unified state would cause serious headaches for Turkey which is already dealing with the fallout from Syria. Regional developments are pushing Ankara, Erbil and Baghdad into a more cooperative mode despite the unresolved issues among them.

    Despite the relative stability in northern Iraq, and the oil wealth which is transforming the region, analysts point out that the situation is not as rosy for the Iraqi Kurds as might appear at first glance. For one thing, there is the point made by Denise Natali in her Nov. 4 article for Al-Monitor under the telling title, “How independent is the Iraqi-Kurdish pipeline to Turkey?”

    As Natali indicates, the Kurdish pipeline will be autonomous in some ways because it lies within Northern Iraq, and is also controlled by the KRG and linked to a Kurdish controlled metering station. But despite this it will still have to connect to the existing Iraqi-Turkish pipeline to transport Kurdish crude to Turkey’s Mediterranean port in Ceyhan and to international markets.

    This shows that Baghdad will be in the picture on way or another, at least in terms of the first oil pipeline between Northern Iraq and Turkey. The question, therefore, is not so much whether the KRG will be independent in exploiting its energy resources, but why it is going ahead with this pipeline knowing it will not be fully independent from the federal government.

    The flip side to the question is why Baghdad is opting for a thaw with Ankara, even though it is aware of the growing energy links between Turkey and the KRG. This is the Middle East, of course, where not everything progresses along expected or logical lines.

    This does not mean, however, that pragmatism does not exist.

    Turkey, Iraq and the KRG are not immune to the Syrian crisis, which continues to provide a fertile breeding ground for al-Qaeda-related groups. Jabhat al-Nusra, the largest of these, is an enemy for Kurds and Shiites alike, and the source of a number of security concerns for Turkey. Denise Natali is right to indicate that Ankara’s unwillingness to further undermining Iraqi sovereignty is influenced by geopolitical trends and in particular the intractable Syrian crisis.

    The same holds for Baghdad, which is already suffering the negative fallout from this crisis on a daily basis. The KRG, for its part, knows that without Turkey it has no way out for its oil and gas other than Iraq. It is also aware that normalization between Ankara and Baghdad is inevitable, sooner or later. This “trilateral interdependence” is forcing reconciliation.

    There are many, of course, who say Erdogan, Maliki and the Barzani family are merely politicking here because of upcoming elections or various domestic difficulties. Once the smoke screen clears, they say, little will be seen to have changed. But with strategic resources like oil and gas — which are also potential sources of conflict — on the one hand, and growing security concerns due to Syria on the other, this appears too cynical a view.

    It also overlooks the pressures Washington is exerting on the three capitals — over which it has varying degrees of influence — to work out their differences, especially now that the Obama administration has decided to take a proactive role in the Middle East.

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  8. #18
    Turkey unlikely to upset Iraq in KRG energy deal

    It is no secret, thanks to frequent leaks to the media, that energy cooperation between Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is continuing apace. This, however, has not broken the determination by both sides to maintain a low-key position on the subject. The sensitivity is due to strained ties between Baghdad, Ankara and Erbil over a number of issues, including the exploitation of northern Iraqi oil and gas.

    Summary⎙ Print Turkey’s energy initiatives with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are not likely to jeopardize a possible warming trend in Ankara-Baghdad ties.

    AuthorSemih IdizPosted November 8, 2013
    Translator(s)Ezgi Akin

    The KRG has been demanding an independent say over the gas and oil in its region, arguing that Baghdad has not honored its pledge to give the Iraqi Kurds their rightful share of Iraq’s oil revenues. Baghdad denies this and has declared the KRG’s stance illegal and dangerous in terms of Iraq’s territorial integrity.

    Baghdad has also accused Turkey of endangering Iraq’s territorial integrity through separate energy deals with the KRG, and has US support on this point. This, however, has not prevented energy cooperation between Turkey and the KRG. Turkish officials say if the United States is concerned, it should first convince the American oil giants Exxon and Chevron, who have also signed deals with the KRG.

    An exclusive Reuters report this week, citing unidentified official sources, also showed that Turkey and the KRG are pushing ahead with “a comprehensive package of deals” in the energy field. This package, reportedly agreed on during last week’s visit to Istanbul by KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, includes multibillion-dollar oil and gas pipelines between Turkey and northern Iraq.

    According to the Reuters report, these will enable the KRG to export some 2 million barrels per day of oil to world markets, and at least 10 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey annually when completed. The first pipeline is almost ready and should be pumping oil by the end of December. The next stage will be to pump northern Iraqi gas by pipeline as of December 2016. The technical details for a pipeline that will carry heavy oil between northern Iraq and Turkey are also said to have been mapped.

    Turkey is dependent on Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan to fuel its growing economy. It also imports liquefied natural gas from Nigeria and Algeria. The KRG’s vast reserves provide a new and cheaper source of energy that planners in Ankara cannot overlook.

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government remains strongly opposed to all agreements arrived at independently from Baghdad. It was interesting therefore that Nechirvan Barzani’s visit to Istanbul last week came only days after talks between Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari, in Ankara on Oct. 25.

    Those talks were designed to maintain the momentum in recent efforts to break the ice between the two countries following a period of tension during which Iraq accused Turkey of meddling in its affairs and destabilizing the country. Ankara in turn has been accusing the Maliki government of oppressing the minority Sunnis, and has US support on this point. Tensions have also been fueled by different positions on Syria.

    Davutoglu will visit Baghdad at the end of this month. There is also talk of visits by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Baghdad and Maliki to Ankara in the near future. Some diplomats in Ankara wonder if news of the energy deals clinched between Turkey and the KRG will unravel this attempt at rapprochement between the Erdogan and Maliki governments.

    The Maliki government is aware of the growing energy cooperation between Ankara and Erbil and still appears keen to patch up differences with Turkey. Meanwhile, the KRG and Baghdad have also been trying to patch up their differences, following a “seven-point agreement” signed in April in Baghdad by Nechirvan Barzani and Maliki.

    The agreement proposed, among other things, the forming of a committee to draft a law on oil and gas and a law on the distribution of these resources. The committee is also supposed to work on a draft law setting the administrative borders of provinces. This is a crucial issue for both sides, given their long-standing dispute over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, which has brought them the brink of conflict.

    The signing of this agreement was followed up with a rare visit by Maliki to Erbil in May and by KRG President Massoud Barzani to Baghdad in July. The agreement, however, still awaits implementation, signaling that full normalization is yet to be secured.

    Turkey also supports the agreement and Turkish officials have told Al-Monitor that contrary, to what is being claimed by some quarters, Ankara stands behind any step which enhances Iraq’s territorial integrity and stability. This is not mere rhetoric either, since Iraq’s dissolution as a unified state would cause serious headaches for Turkey which is already dealing with the fallout from Syria. Regional developments are pushing Ankara, Erbil and Baghdad into a more cooperative mode despite the unresolved issues among them.

    Despite the relative stability in northern Iraq, and the oil wealth which is transforming the region, analysts point out that the situation is not as rosy for the Iraqi Kurds as might appear at first glance. For one thing, there is the point made by Denise Natali in her Nov. 4 article for Al-Monitor under the telling title, “How independent is the Iraqi-Kurdish pipeline to Turkey?”

    As Natali indicates, the Kurdish pipeline will be autonomous in some ways because it lies within Northern Iraq, and is also controlled by the KRG and linked to a Kurdish controlled metering station. But despite this it will still have to connect to the existing Iraqi-Turkish pipeline to transport Kurdish crude to Turkey’s Mediterranean port in Ceyhan and to international markets.

    This shows that Baghdad will be in the picture on way or another, at least in terms of the first oil pipeline between Northern Iraq and Turkey. The question, therefore, is not so much whether the KRG will be independent in exploiting its energy resources, but why it is going ahead with this pipeline knowing it will not be fully independent from the federal government.

    The flip side to the question is why Baghdad is opting for a thaw with Ankara, even though it is aware of the growing energy links between Turkey and the KRG. This is the Middle East, of course, where not everything progresses along expected or logical lines.

    This does not mean, however, that pragmatism does not exist.

    Turkey, Iraq and the KRG are not immune to the Syrian crisis, which continues to provide a fertile breeding ground for al-Qaeda-related groups. Jabhat al-Nusra, the largest of these, is an enemy for Kurds and Shiites alike, and the source of a number of security concerns for Turkey. Denise Natali is right to indicate that Ankara’s unwillingness to further undermining Iraqi sovereignty is influenced by geopolitical trends and in particular the intractable Syrian crisis.

    The same holds for Baghdad, which is already suffering the negative fallout from this crisis on a daily basis. The KRG, for its part, knows that without Turkey it has no way out for its oil and gas other than Iraq. It is also aware that normalization between Ankara and Baghdad is inevitable, sooner or later. This “trilateral interdependence” is forcing reconciliation.

    There are many, of course, who say Erdogan, Maliki and the Barzani family are merely politicking here because of upcoming elections or various domestic difficulties. Once the smoke screen clears, they say, little will be seen to have changed. But with strategic resources like oil and gas — which are also potential sources of conflict — on the one hand, and growing security concerns due to Syria on the other, this appears too cynical a view.

    It also overlooks the pressures Washington is exerting on the three capitals — over which it has varying degrees of influence — to work out their differences, especially now that the Obama administration has decided to take a proactive role in the Middle East.

    https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/orig...#ixzz2kFfHR2Xl

  9. #19
    Iraqi official: Turkey want decisively file "Tareq al-Hashemi" sentenced to death

    10-11-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Sparkle News Agency

    Attract each other Iraq and Turkey, the parties to the controversy over Iraqi Vice President file Fugitive "Tareq al-Hashemi," while Iraqi Deputy Turkey's desire decisively file Hashemi sentenced to death
    To convict him of involvement in the crimes and terrorist acts. Will focus part of the talks Ahmet Davutoglu, who arrived in Iraq on Sunday, about resolve the file "Tareq al-Hashemi," next to the situation in the region, particularly Syrian conflict, and the preparations for the convening of the Geneva Conference 2. Said Mohammed Ugaili, MP for a coalition of state law, ruling in Iraq, for "News of Moscow", said Turkish officials, "Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Davutoglu," expressed regret for Iraq, said in an interview with Khodair al Vice President of the Republic on the sidelines of meetings General Assembly in New York, said that they "were involved in the file-Hashemi. "He added that the Turks محرجون in this regard after it was al-Hashimi, compressed paper in her hand against the Maliki government. and talks Ihsanoglu in Baghdad today, confirmed Okkaily she poured in resolving the file" Hashemi "issued warrant arrest Iraqi and required to Interpol, The handed over to the Iraqi judiciary or deported outside the walls of Turkey, in addition to the Syrian conflict with the Geneva Conference 2. "After that I found Turkey itself alone in the region, due to the isolation of internal and external impact of political interventions expansion in the region, and generated signals from the Turks to the Iraqi government in order to improve relations and repair what marred through. Relations between Baghdad and Ankara in the past months, tension because of the position the Turkish government of the conflict in Syria, and refused to hand over Tareq al-Hashemi, Iraqi Vice President, sentenced to death in absentia. sparked the emergence of al-Hashemi during a human rights conference in Brussels, the Belgian capital, at the invitation of the European Union, enraged the Iraqi government, which ended the deal with the chairman of the Friendship Committee in the European Parliament Stephenson CNN, calling on the EU not to deal with it and change it in the fastest time. should be noted that Tariq al-Hashimi fugitive from Iraq living in Turkey and moving between Qatar and Saudi Arabia between now and then.

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  10. #20
    Economist explains some economic laws are in place, however GOI fails to apply or adopt correctly
    Posted: November 10, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
    Tags: Baghdad, Consumer, Consumer protection, Law, Majid, Process control, Quality Control, Services

    Economist: economic laws problem lies in the application process and not adopting
    10-11-2013 11:23 AM

    Baghdad (news) .. Said economic expert Majid picture, that the problem in the economic laws are applied and activated, not at her age, indicating that the Consumer Protection Act passed two years ago but did not work.

    said Suri (of the Agency news): The Consumer Protection Act, although passed two years ago But he suffers from many shortcomings prevented the application, adding that the application of the laws of economics and including consumer protection needs to the need to distribute civic organizations related to it.

    between: the civic organizations that monitors import operations to be up to the consumer in terms of quality control of materials and price and period of validity .

    However, to say: There is no possibility at these organizations to work in this area, in addition to the executive and legislative branches not the process of expanding this law and distributed to organizations and Aalkiem process control consumption well between the producer, importer and consumer.

    said economists on the need for the application of the Consumer Protection Act and Tariff Act customs control on the market and goods entering and corrupt traders accounting and the imposition of fines on them.

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