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The Making of Kurdistan: Oil, Investment and a Turkish Gamble

They say, “politics makes strange bedfellows” and nowhere is that more apparent than in the middle east. Oil and the massive investment returns it can bring can turn friends into enemies and enemies into friends in rather short order.  Up until recently Turkey has been at odds with the Kurds in Northern Iraq but all that is

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Iran Hopes Exporting Electricity Will Cover for Reduced Oil Demand

Exporting Electricity Against the backdrop of discussions about pending negotiations over its controversial nuclear program and the upcoming deadline of an European embargo on Iranian oil comes a quiet push by the Islamic republic to become a major electricity exporter. Tehran had said it was expecting to secure electricity deals with Syria and Lebanon and

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