Özet:

Iraq has been Turkey’s important neighbor because of the political, economic, commercial, and historical ties between two countries. However, Turkey has been more than a neighbor country for both Iraq and the Kurdish administration in northern Iraq. It stands as the Northern Iraq’s door opening to the world. Despite these wide-ranging ties, the relations between Turkey and the Northern Iraq have much focused on security mainly because of the terrorist organization PKK problem, status of Kirkuk and Turkmen’s conditions in the region. Even though the relations between Turkey and the Kurdish administration in northern Iraq have been on the verge of a rupture especially after the Iraqi invasion in 2003, in time they have tended to improve. Within this scope, “Kurdish Opening” implemented by Turkey in 2009 has played a significant role in the improvement of the relations. Concentrating on the relations between Turkey and the Kurdish administration in northern Iraq, this paper tries to deal with the attitudes of the two sides towards their common problems and concrete steps taken and the policies on the Northern Iraq.

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