Just a few years ago relations between Turkey and the semi-autonomous Iraqi province of Kurdistan were such that their respective energy ministers could appear at conferences with equal ministerial billing, while Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani was a frequent visitor to Ankara. Now with an upsurge in Kurdish violence in Turkey, Kurdish militias in Syria poised to eject IS, and the KRG itself having announced a referendum on whether it should declare formal independence from Iraq, relations have become decidedly frosty, raising serious questions over future energy cooperation.
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