BAGHDAD: Turkey told Iraq it would deal only with the Iraqi government on crude oil exports, the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said on Thursday.
In a phone call with Abadi, Turkish Prime Minister Binali 鈥淵ildirim confirmed the support of his country to all decisions鈥� taken or sought by the Iraqi government after the independence referendum held in Iraqi Kurdistan on Monday, Abadi鈥檚 office said in a statement.
Among these measures, the statement mentioned 鈥渞estricting oil export (operations) to the Iraqi government.鈥�
It didn鈥檛 give more details or say how Ankara would deal with current crude exports from Iraqi Kurdistan.