After two and a half years, Iraq resumes exporting crude oil to Turkey from the Kurdish autonomous region.

On the 27th, the Iraqi Ministry of Oil announced that, after a hiatus of two and a half years, that day it resumed exporting crude oil from the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq to Turkey. According to a statement from the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, the Iraqi side resumed oil pumping to the Turkish side starting at 6 am local time. Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar confirmed this on social media.