


“If Erdogan wins he might feel more confident in his dealings with Iraq and … demand more concessions from Baghdad and Erbil” to open the pipeline, Wahab said. To Baghdad’s chagrin, Turkey closed a pipeline in March over a dispute about oil exported by the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq. One impact of an Erdogan win for Iraq could be on oil exports. In Baghdad however, some politicians would “prefer to deal with the devil they know,” said Bilal Wahab of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “If Erdogan is re-elected, he will come back even more powerful and will be heavy handed in terms of security in the region. Kamaran Othman, who documents casualties of Turkish operations in Iraq, said he had had little hope that an opposition victory in Turkey would have changed things in the long term, but feared an Erdogan win would spell more strife. If he leaves, maybe the situation will change,” said Raber Mahmoud Ahmed, 30, a driver in Erbil. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

I knew better than to bet more than I could afford to lose that night. He was a predator, and he had set his sights on me. One look at Jericho Forge and I knew the rumors were true. "You can put that man in a suit, but he'll never be tame." This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Meghan March in exchange for an honest review.

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