Fidan tried to barter Baghdad by blackmailing it over the water issue

Last Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited Iraq, on a two-day visit, during which he met a large number of government officials and political leaders in this country.

With regard to this visit by the Minister of the Turkish occupation state to Iraq, the Iraqi researcher in political history, Jawad al-Baydani, considered that it "revolved around four main points, the oil issue, discussing the issue of the PKK, discussing the issue of the water crisis, and increasing Turkey's share of trade exchange with Iraq."

The Iraqi researcher also pointed out that the most prominent axes for which the Turkish minister came were "the issue of oil and the issue of the Kurdistan Workers' Party." As for the Iraqi government, according to al-Baydani, it focused on two points, "the issue of oil is a common issue, and the second point is the increase in water flows." The Tigris and Euphrates rivers,” explaining, “There is a crisis; Turkey claims that Iraq’s shares of water are confined to the Tigris River only and do not include the two rivers.

The second point, which is also complicated, is the oil issue, where al-Baydani indicated that Iraq “filed a lawsuit against the Turkish government because it received oil from the Kurdistan Regional Government without referring to the central government,” which the Iraqi researcher considered “a thorny and complex issue due to the lack of an agreement between the regional government and the central government, where the international court ruled in favor of the latter by fining Turkey. In this regard, the Iraqi researcher noted that Turkey said: "If Baghdad wants to restore its relations and export oil, it must cut off Iranian gas supplies, which is also a complex issue and they did not reach a solution regarding it."

The researcher pointed out that the Turkish Minister of Defense had previously come to Iraq, and there was a claim that the Iraqi army would launch attacks with the Peshmerga forces affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party against the Workers' Party in Sinjar or Qandil, but the Iraqi army and the Iraqi government refused that, because this matter enters it. In a new bump and complex problems that do not end easily, it seems that the Kurdistan Regional Government has reservations about this thing.

The researcher in political history indicated that the Iraqi government refused to increase commercial revenues between Turkey and Iraq, explaining, "given that the benefit must be mutual, what Turkey offers to Iraq must have fairness in import and export, not to mention Iraq's demands regarding Turkey's increase in flows water.”

The researcher believes that the Turkish Foreign Minister went to Southern Kurdistan to obtain some positive points without reaching logical solutions with the region, given that the central government is the one who decides on issues that are considered a comprehensive national wealth for all Iraqis. Like oil, gas and other things. Therefore, the international courts adopt the Iraqi constitution as a result, and of course this contradicts what the Turkish government wants to obtain. These are the most important points and axes for which the Turkish foreign minister came and went without achieving results.

T/ Satt.

ANHA