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Turkey signals end of Iraq-Turkey Pipeline treaty

The agreement will now expire in July 2026, raising new questions about the future of oil exports from northern Iraq and the Kurdistan region.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (center right) is received by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) in Ankara on March 21, 2023. (Photo credit: Iraqi Prime Minister's Office)
Ben Van Heuvelen, Rawaz Tahir and Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025

Turkey has published notice that it will not renew the treaty governing the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP), which is now set to expire on July 27, 2026.

The end of the ITP treaty creates new uncertainty for Iraqi efforts to re-start northern crude exports via the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, which have been offline for over two years after an international court of arbitration found that Turkey had been violating the treaty by facilitating exports manged by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) despite objections from Baghdad.

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