Recently added articles from APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy:
Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 45 - Iraqi-Turkish Partnership Threatened.
Dec 21, 2009 ... Turkey's powerful and secular Kamalists have resumed a war with the country's Kurdish community, threatening peace within Iraq's Kurdistan and the potential of Iraq becoming the world's largest exporter of crude oil. The development coincided with last week's visit to Erbil, capital of ...
Kemalist Court Bans Turkey's Kurdish Party - Undermining AKP's Initiative.
Dec 21, 2009 ... Kemalist movements, however, still regard the ruling AKP as a "Neo-Ottoman Islamist" group bent on undermining Turkey's secularism. In pursuing their campaign against the AKP and its initiative for the country's large Kurdish community, a Kemalist court recently outlawed the Democratic ...
The Turkish Background For Kurds.
Dec 21, 2009 ... After World War-I ended and the Ottoman Empire was divided, the Kurdish areas were re-divided between modern Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, with further enclaves inside the old Soviet Union. Soon the Kurdish areas of the new state of Iraq, mainly the old Ottoman Wilayat of Mosul, became a ...
Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 43 - Iraqi-Turkish Partnership.
Nov 16, 2009 ... Iraq, with the potential of becoming the world's largest exporter of crude oil, is being approached for a wide-ranging strategic partnership with neighbouring Turkey which is slated to become the main corridor for exports to Europe and the rest of the world from the Greater Middle East ...
Ankara's Reforms For The Kurdish Minority.
Nov 16, 2009 ... The AKP government on Nov. 13 unveiled measures to expand the rights of Turkey's Kurdish population, including the creation of an independent body to investigate cases of torture and the loosening of restrictions on the Kurdish language. This reform initiative is seen as boosting Turkey's ...