KRG Prime Minister heads to Turkey over oil pipeline project

Erbil (IraqiNews.com) The Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government, Nichervan Barzani, will head to Ankara on Tuesday in order to put the last touches on the project of the oil pipeline extending between Kurdistan Region and Turkey which is expected to start before the end of 2013.

The Federal Government in Baghdad objects this project and media reports mentioned that the Turkish Prime Minister Reccep Tayeb Erdogan responded to pressures from Baghdad Government to stop this project where he suggested to link this project to the Iraqi Strategic Pipeline and divide the revenues of the Kurdish oil products with Baghdad.