Turkey ‘driven by greed’ in Kurd oil row: Iraq deputy PM | GulfNews.com:
"Ankara has been “driven by greed” in an escalating row over oil pumped from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region and shipped overseas via Turkey, Baghdad’s top energy official told AFP Sunday.
Hussain Al Shahristani, deputy prime minister for energy affairs, also threatened legal action against firms that purchased the “smuggled oil”.
His remarks represent a significant ratcheting up of rhetoric after Baghdad filed an arbitration case against Ankara in a widening dispute over Iraq’s prized natural resources. Tensions have markedly worsened between the two countries in recent years.
But the shipping of oil extracted from the three-province Kurdistan region last month has further chilled ties both between Baghdad and Ankara, and between the central government and Kurdish authorities in Arbil."
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