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On September 25th, Iraqi Prime Minister Sadi declared on his social media account that a "historic agreement" has been reached, in which the Baghdad central government's oil ministry will receive crude oil production from the oil fields in the Kurdish Autonomous Region (Kurdistan Region) and export it through oil pipelines between Iraq and Turkey. The Iraqi central government had previously sought compensation from the Turkish government for importing oil from the Kurdistan Regional Government without authorization from the Iraqi government between 2014 and 2018. Oil transportation between Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq was suspended in March 2023. Iraqi government officials had disclosed multiple times between 2024 and 2025 that they planned to resume oil exports from the Kurdistan Region, but the export plan was delayed due to multiple factors such as frequent drone attacks on the oil fields in the region.