Kurdish oil to flow through Turkey

Kurdish oil to flow through Turkey

This is great news! It’s about time some headway was made here!

More info on the Kurdish oil export subject

If anyone wants to read more about it, there’s an article here: http://dinarspeculation.com/2009/05/10/kurds-get-approval-to-export-oil/

(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE: That's GREAT !!

(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential Foreign Policy Team: That’s great .. Just like we use to say: “If we can wait for the dark clouds to clear off, we will see a bright moon shines again” ! Kurd’s Forbearance are finally stepping closer to the Kurdish Independence, Kurd’s northern Iraq’s territory and oil fields are belong to Kurd’s sovereignty. (R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential foreign policy team suggest Kurds NOT TO join OPEC and NOT To join United Nations membership. Let Kurd-Americans and American petroleum corporations to develop Kurdish oil; (R) 2013 DAN QUAYLE administration in White House, our Republican foreign affairs: Texas A&M University system are welcome Kurdish foreign students to study majoring in “Petroleum Engineering” or/and “Industry and Technology” to prepare the Kurds' future.

its abiut time the kurd take control of their home land.

Civil War in Iraq?...
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Why Kurds vs. Arabs Could Be Iraq’s Next Civil War
Wed Jul 22,`09 - With a projected capacity of about 40,000 bbl. a day, the new oil refinery inaugurated on July 18 by the Kurdish regional government of northern Iraq is modest even by the standards of Iraq’s dilapidated oil industry. But its significance shouldn’t be underestimated: in Kurdish minds, the region’s ability to refine the oil it pumps is a vital step toward deepening its autonomy from the Arab-majority remainder of Iraq.

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Until recently, Iraqi Kurdistan had no refineries of its own, and though the area is sitting on a huge pool of oil, it had to rely on gasoline supplies from elsewhere in Iraq, Turkey or Iran. Fearful of giving Iraq’s ethnic Kurdish minority any control over the country’s most precious resource, Saddam Hussein had not only declined to build refineries in the region; he made sure Iraq’s oil pipelines bypassed Kurdish areas, and his army forcibly removed much of the Kurdish population from Kirkuk - the most important oil-producing area in the north - and repopulated the city with Arabs from the south.

Since Saddam’s demise, however, the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is steadily developing an independent oil industry in northern Iraq. It has discovered and begun to develop new oil fields inside its boundaries, and has entered production-sharing deals with foreign oil companies that were made without the consent of the federal government in Baghdad. Those deals have raised suspicions among Iraq’s Arab-dominated government that KRG is not simply taking on more of the prerogatives of sovereign statehood but is actually laying the economic infrastructure for independence.

For their part, Kurdish officials suspect that Baghdad’s failure to pass a national oil law (which would give Iraq’s provincial governments greater control over the industry in their territory) and its failure to press ahead with a referendum to settle Kurdish claims to Kirkuk and other disputed areas are signs that the Arab majority plans to settle matters in its favor. Such is the enmity, in fact, that KRG’s president, Massoud Barzani, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki haven’t spoken in over a year. Recently, KRG Prime Minister Nechirwan Barzani said that Arab-Kurdish relations in Iraq are at their lowest point since Saddam was in power. With Iraq’s Sunni-Shi’ite sectarian violence largely in check, the Kurdish-Arab dispute has become the most worrisome fault line in Iraq.

Ever since the U.S. invasion, the Kurds of northern Iraq have enjoyed many of the trappings of sovereignty. Kurds have their own parliament and executive government, plus an 80,000-strong army (the Pesh Merga militia) and control over their borders, which Baghdad-controlled security forces are not allowed to enter. Despite the fact that the vast majority of Kurds want independence from Iraq, their leaders have proceeded with caution, mindful of the risks. Their small, landlocked region is surrounded by neighbors - Turkey, Syria, Iran - whose own restive Kurdish minorities make them hostile to the prospect of an independent Kurdish state emerging in Iraq.

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