IRAQ/TURKEY
 
Ankara Poised To Unleash KRG Upstream Investment
 
By Rafiq Latta
 
A Turkish state oil company is in advanced talks to take stakes in several blocks in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish north, MEES understands. If realized, the investment will mark a major escalation in the oil dispute between central government in Baghdad on the one hand and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Turkey on the other.
 
The Turkey-KRG talks come in the context...