Press Release- Turkey FINAL

Turkey welcomes the decision to establish a unified Iraq. Turkey has made a military commitment to the Iraqi government to maintain peace and unity, and help the implementation of the unifying process. We have helped to encourage and maintain US support for the unification, and have persuaded the international community to recognize the unified Iraq.

We have worked with Iran to maintain regional security as well as our domestic energy concerns.

We have worked democratically and peacefully with domestic kurdish groups to maintain national security and human rights.

Turkey looks forward to collaboratively increase working with the Kurdish region to secure our economic and energy interests.