Iraq/Kurdistan/Turkey: Erdogan Says Turkey Will Close Iraq Border and Air Space Soon

Oct 5, 2017 | Ece Toksabay and Tuvan Gumrukcu, Reuters
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President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey would soon close its border with northern Iraq and shut its air space in response to last week’s Kurdish independence referendum. Erdogan, who held talks in Tehran on Wednesday with Iranian leaders, also said Turkey would decide jointly with Iran and Iraq’s central government in Baghdad whether to cut oil exports from Kurdish northern Iraq.