Iraqi government to change oil pipeline route according to Turkish Newspaper

(IraqiNews.com) A Turkish newspaper revealed that the Iraqi Federal Government intends to redraw the path of the oil pipelines across Syria or Israel instead of Turkey who concluded a convention to import crude oil from Kurdistan Regional Government without obtaining the consent of the Iraqi Federal Government.

The Turkish newspaper, Yeni Safak, published that ”The Iraqi Company of Marketing the Iraqi Oil resources expressed its readiness to change the path of pipelines that export Iraqi crude oil to the global markets so that it reach global markets without passing through Turkey,” The Kurdistan Regional Government announced its intention to export one million barrel of crude oil to Turkey which raised the rage of the Federal Government which considered this process as smuggling and unconstitutional and it threatened to reduce the portion of Kurdistan Region from the 2014 State Budget.