Turkey, Iraq Reach PKK Security Deal and Seek Closer Trade Ties
- Ankara, Baghdad want to build a new trade route to Europe
- Deal comes as neighbors try to resolve oil pipeline dispute
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, right, with Turkey’s Hakan Fidan in Baghdad on March 14.
Photographer: Murtadha Ridha/AFP/Getty Images
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Turkey and Iraq reached a landmark security deal to crack down on Kurdish militants holed up in the mountains of northern Iraq.
The agreement comes as the two countries work toward building a major trade route and restarting a key oil pipeline running from northern Iraq to Turkey’s coast.