APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from October 2007

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from October 2007

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 20 - Iraq - The Kurds & Partition.
October 29, 2007... Two developments in Iraq will have major implications for conventional oil worldwide: The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is proceeding with its oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) campaign, irrespective of what Baghdad says. A...

IRAQ - Efforts To Avert Turkish Move.
October 29, 2007... Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki on Oct. 23 ordered the closure of PKK's operation in northern Iraq in an effort to prevent a Turkish invasion. This came after intense international pressure to crack down on the PKK - a separatist group which Ankara...

IRAQ - Oil Markets Are Boiling.(Brief article)
October 29, 2007... An incursion could stifle E&P investment, especially in the KRG area, and put at risk Turkey's position as a vital transit route for the world's crude oil supply. Institutional investors are looking for almost any event to emphasise with people...

IRAQ - Why Turkey Fears The Kurds; The Viability Of Iraq, Iran & Syria.
October 29, 2007... Turkey's Kemalists, including the powerful military, have never forgiven the US for calling Erdogan's neo-Islamist government as a model for good democracy in the Muslim world. And, in an article published on Oct. 16 by Asia Times Online,...

IRAQ - The Oct. 21 Attack & Regional Implications.
October 29, 2007... PKK's Oct. 21 attack caused Armagan Kuloglu, a retired Turkish general, to express the public mood: "With this incident, the arrow has left the bow, and no room is left for the government to...fail to launch a cross-border operation". Erdogan...

IRAQ - Kurdish Militants' Iran Front.
October 29, 2007... A similar battle has been under way on the Iraqi border with Iran. Kurdish guerrillas ambush and kill Iranian forces and retreat to mountain hideouts in north-eastern Iraq. Tehran says Washington aids the Iranian guerrillas, an accusation the...

IRAQ - Back To Iraqi Front.
October 29, 2007... Kurdistan President Barzani on Oct. 19 raised the stakes in the standoff by warning Turkey the KRG would defend itself against any cross-border strike on PKK bases. He stated: "We frankly say to all parties: if they attack the [Kurdistan]...

IRAQ - Partitioning Iraq.
October 29, 2007... The following is an article published on Oct. 22 written by O'Brien Browne, professor of Middle Eastern history and politics at Schiller International University and inter-cultural communication at Heidelberg University: "Virtually all of...

IRAQ - Bin Laden Urges Sunni Insurgents To Unite.
October 29, 2007... In an audiotape broadcast on Oct. 22 on al-Jazeera TV, Osama bin Laden called for Iraq's Sunni insurgents to unite and avoid divisive "extremism". Apparently admitting weakness and seeking to win over Sunnis opposed to al-Qaeda, bin Laden...

IRAQ - Al-Qaeda Weakened.
October 29, 2007... On Oct. 23 in Iraq's Anbar Province, where al-Qaeda once enjoyed sanctuary, Sunni tribesmen turned out en masse to commemorate Shaikh Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, a leader killed for helping the US rout the Neo-Salafis from that region. He was...