Iraqi Prime Minister visits Turkey because neighbors work to strengthen cooperation

Ankara, Turkey – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks with president of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because their two neighboring countries move forward in efforts to strengthen cooperation and repair prevalence.

The Ankara talks are expected to focus on a new peace effort between the Turkish and Kurdish militant group, which is fired in Iraq, as well as water supplies to Iraq. Erdogan’s office said Turkish and Iraqi officials in the ink on the arrangement of cooperation agreements during the visit.

Relations between Turkey and Iraq are often swollen due to Turkish military intrusions in Northern Iraq for operations against Forbidden Kurdistan Workers’ Partyor PKK, and the establishment of Turkish military bases. Baghdad has often condemned the inzulcites as a violation of his sovereignty.

Recently, however, the two countries deepened security cooperation, including addressing the presence of the PKK in northern Iraq. Erdogan visited Baghdad last year for the first time in more than a decade.

Also last year, Iraq announced that the Iraqi National Security Council adopted the PKK ban, although it stopped marking it as a terrorist organization.

The visit comes after the PKK prison leader, Abdullaha Ocalan, called his group Dissolution and disarmament As part of a New peace initiative with Turkey. Group declared a single-sided reception in March And now he is expected to hold Congress in northern Iraq, during which her dissolution would announce, Turkish officials said.

The PKK, who held the bases on the semi-end Kurdish Kurdish in the north of Iraq, fought to Turkey for an autonomous kurdish state. The conflict claimed tens of thousands of lives since the 1980s. Turkey and his Western Allies have determined the terrorist organization of the PKK.

In recent years, Iraqi officials complained that the dams were built from Turkey reduce Iraqi water supply.

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which provide most Iraqi cute water, come in Turkey. Experts fear that climate change will probably worsen existing water shortcomings in Iraq, with potentially devastating consequences.