Barzani in Ankara for key talks on oil exports, revenues
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani was in Ankara Monday for important talks on oil exports and revenues, officials said. Safeen Dizayee, spokesman of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), told Rudaw that the visit could mean Kurdish civil servants finally getting paid at the end of this month, after going without salaries since Baghdad froze […]Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani was in Ankara Monday for important talks on oil exports and revenues, officials said. Safeen Dizayee, spokesman of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), told Rudaw that the visit could mean Kurdish civil servants finally getting paid at the end of this month, after going without salaries since Baghdad froze budget payments early this year.
“We requested that Turkey import more Kurdish oil,” Dizayee said. He revealed that current exports were 120,000 barrels per day (bpd), and that “we will try to raise the rate to 400,000 bpd by the end of the year.”
