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The Baghdad Pact emerged in this atmosphere, with Arab countries and Turkey going different directions. Different foci in their extended foreign relations, however, did not preclude Iraq and Turkey from cooperating in common areas of interest. The Baghdad Pact is the evidence of the cooperation between two countries.
February 24, 1955: Iraq and Turkey sign a military agreement in Baghdad and the term "Baghdad Pact" started to be used. United Kingdom (April 5), Pakistan (September 23) and Iran (November 3) joined the Baghdad Pact in the same year. [10] October 1958: Baghdad Pact headquarters moved from Baghdad to Ankara.
Generally cordial, relations between Iraq and Turkey became strained following the Gulf War (1990–91); this resulted in an autonomous Kurdish area being established in northern Iraq which provided sanctuary for Kurdish guerrillas operating in the south-east Turkey. [8]
Turkey halted flows on the pipeline, Iraq's northern oil export route, after an arbitration ruling by the International Chamber of Commerce ordered Ankara to pay Baghdad damages for unauthorised ...
There are 59 embassies in Baghdad, and several other countries maintain consulates in Erbil, Basra, Mosul and Najaf. Map of diplomatic missions in Iraq Resident missions in Baghdad
The Treaty of Ankara (1926), also known as the Frontier Treaty of 1926 (Turkish: Ankara Antlaşması), was signed on 5 June 1926 in Ankara by Turkey, the United Kingdom and Mandatory Iraq. The treaty aimed to solve the so-called " Mosul Question " by determining a mutually satisfactory border between Turkey and Iraq and to regulate their ...
Color-coded geographical regions map of Turkey, with national and provincial borders superimposed in thicker gray and thinner white, respectively.The seven official geographical regions are the Marmara Region (dark green), the Black Sea Region (light green), the Aegean Region (blue), the Mediterranean Region (purple), the Central Anatolia Region (brown), the Eastern Anatolia Region (orange ...
Tensions between Kurdistan Region and the central Iraqi government mounted through 2011–2012 on the issues of power sharing, oil production and territorial control. In April 2012, Masoud Barzani, president of the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region, demanded that officials agree to their demands or face secession from Baghdad by September ...