MESOP’S NEW BOOK RECOMMENDATION : Iraq’s Kurdistan Takes a Giant Step Toward Independence
By – David Ottaway
Iraq’s Kurdistan has signed multiple energy agreements with neighboring Turkey and is about to become an independent oil and gas exporter in defiance of Baghdad and Washington. This will provide Kurdistan, already an autonomous region within Iraq, with the financial and economic basis for its possible eventual independence. Turkey strongly opposes this and even limited autonomy for its own Kurds but has succumbed to its voracious appetite for new energy sources. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/iraq%E2%80%99s-kurdistan-takes-giant-step-toward-independence