Barazani delivers lecture in Ankara on Kurdistan-Turkey ties

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani delivered a lecture on the region’s relations with Turkey on Saturday as part of his official visit to Ankara, according to a statement by the region’s presidential cabinet. “Barazani, upon an invitation from the head of the Middle East Center for Strategic Studies in Ankara, lectured a group of researchers and academics on some political issues like relations between the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region and Turkey as well as the current situation in the region,” read the statement as received by IraqiNews.com news agency. Barazani had started an official visit to Ankara on Wednesday (June 2) at the head of a high-ranking delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG). His several days’ visit, paid upon an official invitation from the Turkish government, is the first one he pays to Turkey as president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, not as the leader of a party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). AmR (P) 1