"The Turkish Consul in Kurdistan region of Iraq that "Turkey's economic delegation of 250 businessmen will visit Arbil to meet the business end of this month."
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Trade between Turkey and Iraq come in contact with the nine billion dollars in 2009
السومرية نيوز/ أربيل Alsumaria News / Erbil
Announced that the Turkish consulate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Saturday, that the value of trade between Iraq and Turkey in 2009 amounted to nine billion dollars, indicating that Turkey has a great interest in the development of political and economic relations and cultural ties with the region.
The Turkish Consul in Kurdistan Eden Sgan in a press conference held today and attended by "Alsumaria News" "The value of trade between Iraq and Turkey in 2009 amounted to nine billion dollars," showing at the same time that "the size of the projects implemented by companies in Iraq in the time the present total of eight billion dollars, mostly in the province of Kurdistan. "
The value of Turkish exports to Iraq in 2007 to 28.2 billion dollars, while the total Iraqi exports to Turkey, 650 million dollars, according to official statistics, Turkey, the Turkish Foreign Ministry estimated the volume of transactions in 2008 to six billion dollars.
He Sgan "The opening of the Consulate General in Arbil is a strategic endeavor in which to develop relations with the region," and expressed the hope that "the abolition of visa with the Kurdistan region, as was the case with Lebanon, Syria and Jordan", indicating that the task of the consulate "will not just an development of relations political and economic but rather will work on the development of cultural relations as well "as he put it.
Turkey has opened its consulate in Erbil last March, and have consulates in Mosul, Kirkuk and Basra.
The Turkish Consul in Kurdistan region of Iraq that "Turkey's economic delegation of 250 businessmen will visit Arbil to meet the business end of this month."
Turkish companies are active largely in the construction sector, has occurred since 2003 on contracts worth 4.2 billion dollars until the year 2007.
The Baghdad and Ankara signed during the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan mid-October 2009, about fifty memorandum of understanding promote political and economic cooperation, especially in the area of security, water and open the crossings, oil and electricity connection and health, railways and agriculture, Erdogan said at the time said the strategic cooperation between Turkey Both Syria and Iraq "should be a model for the countries of the region."
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