Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) tried to take a 25% stake in a planned 200,000 b/d refinery in Turkey's port city of Ceyhan, documents published by Wikileaks reveal. Correspondence dating back to 2011-12 between KRG Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami and Turkish firm Calik Holding, the proposed developer of the refinery, was part of a trove of emails leaked from the account of Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak recently (IOD Dec.19'16). Albayrak, also son-in-law of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a former CEO of Calik Holding.
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