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Erdoğan tells Iraqi president Development Road will open new East-West trade route
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met Iraqi President Nizar Amidi on the sidelines of the COP31 Leaders’ Summit in Antalya. He said progress had been made on the Development Road project, which will open a new route for East-West trade, and expressed hope that Iraq would increase its support for the goal of a “terrorism-free region.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met Iraqi President Nizar Amidi on the sidelines of the 31st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31), held in the Turkish city of Antalya. The Turkish Presidency’s Communications Directorate said the meeting addressed bilateral relations between Türkiye and Iraq, as well as regional issues.
Erdoğan said the momentum generated by high-level contacts between Türkiye and Iraq had invigorated bilateral relations. He noted that progress had been made on the Development Road project, which will strengthen Iraq’s links with the world and open an entirely new route for East-West trade.
The Turkish president said his country would continue taking steps to strengthen cooperation with Iraq in several areas, foremost energy. He expressed hope that Iraq would continue to increasingly support the goal of a “terrorism-free region,” saying that achieving this goal would benefit both countries.
The Development Road project aims to connect the Grand Faw Port in southern Iraq to the Turkish border through a network of roads and railways. In his address to the COP31 summit, the Iraqi president said climate change had deprived Iraq of more than half of its agricultural land.
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