Ankara, Turkey: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani arrived Turkey on Thursday to interact with President Recep Tayip Erdogan as his two neighbors move forward with efforts to strengthen cooperation and repair stressful relations already. Talks at Ankara are expected to focus on a new peace effort between Turkey and a Kurdish terrorist group, which has a leg in Iraq, as well as water supply to Iraq. Erdogan’s office stated that Türkiye and Iraqi officials would form a series of cooperation agreements during the visit. Relations between Turkey and Iraq were often stressed in Northern Iraq for the establishment of the Kurdistan Workers Party, banned on Turkish military infiltration in Northern Iraq, or PKK and Turkish military bases. Baghdad often condemned the avatar as a violation of his sovereignty. Recently, however, both countries have deepened cooperation on security, including addressing the PKK presence in Northern Iraq. Erdogan visited Baghdad for the first time in more than a decade last year. In addition, last year, Iraq announced that the Iraqi National Security Council had issued a ban on PKK, although it stopped nominating it as a terrorist organization. The yatra was called by PKK jail leader, Abdullah Oklan to dissolve and dismiss and dismiss his group as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey. Turkish officials said the group declared a unilateral ceasefire in March and is now expected to organize a Congress in North Iraq, during which it will announce its disintegration. PKK, which has maintained bases in the semi -economic Kurdish region of North Iraq, has fought Turkey for an autonomous Kurdish kingdom. The conflict has claimed tens of thousands of people since the 1980s. Türkiye and its western colleagues have named PKK a terrorist organization. In recent years, Iraqi officials have complained that the dams constructed by Türkiye are reducing the water supply of Iraq. Tigris and ufrets rivers, which provide most of the fresh water of Iraq, are generated in Türkiye. Experts are afraid that with potential disastrous consequences, climate change is likely to increase the lack of existing water in Iraq.
