Turkey’s military operations will therefore ultimately serve to entrench a permanent, though likely clandestine and informal, Turkish military and intelligence presence in northern Iraq, likely ...

Erdogan said Turkey would act inside Iraq and Syria on its own terms. “We do not need to take permission for this, we are not planning to get it,” he told a conference in Istanbul.

Turkey is determined to prevent a repetition of the 1984-99 guerrilla war with the separatist PKK, in which it suffered more than 30,000 deaths. It has mobilized a large force on its Iraqi border ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, rand Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani review honor guards during the latter's official visit to Turkey, in Ankara on Thursday, May 8, 2025.

Iraq and Turkey signed more than 20 MOUs during Erdogan's one-day visit on everything from cultural and agricultural cooperation to education and health, a statement from Sudani's office said.

FILE PHOTO: Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan give a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, Iraq April 22, 2024.

Turkey shut down the pipeline because Iraq's federal government won the right to control loading at Ceyhan. Iraq's SOMO would have to instruct Turkey on ship-loading, or the crude would have built ...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, right, and Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani shake hands during a welcome ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.

The oil pipeline running from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region to Turkey has been shut down since March 2023, after an arbitration court ruling ordered Ankara to pay Iraq $1.5 billion for oil ...

In March 2003, U.S. troops parachuted into Iraq’s north and took up positions in the most fraught conflict then going in that part of the country: A looming battle between Turkey and the Kurds ...

Turkey's defense ministry says it carried out raids on 20 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq after a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital.