Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have discussed the latest developments surrounding a highly controversial planned referendum on the independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq. In a telephone conversation on Sunday, the Iranian and Turkish presidents expressed concern about the regional chaos that ...
Turkey Monday denied media reports it had closed its southern border gate with northern Iraq in response to the independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, but said strict controls were in place. “Habur border gate has not been closed,” Customs Minister Bulent Tufenkci was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu ...
