IRAQ/TURKEY 

Baghdad-Ankara Relationship At Crossroads
 
Turkey’s emergence as a regional power is increasingly impacting on its neighbor’s internal power dynamics, in Iraq’s case exacerbating already-severe stresses between Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), not to mention inter-Kurdish relations.
 
For all three protagonists – Turks, Federal Iraqis and Kurds – oil and gas lie at the heart of their strategies....