UPDATE: Pipeline sabotage halts Turkey exports
As tensions rise in southeastern Turkey, a bomb hits the KRG's economic lifeline.
Turkish gendarme forces patrol the road leading to the jetty at the Ceyhan crude oil terminal on July 13, 2006. (FATIH SARIBAS/Reuters)
ERBIL/KIRKUK - Iraq's northern export pipeline – the economic lifeline of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) – is offline for a third straight day, after two incidents of smuggling and sabotage in Turkey.
The pipeline was bombed Wednesday in the Cizre area of Turkey, about 20 kilometers from the Iraqi border, according to the Turkish Energy Ministry and a KRG official. Oil flows were already at a trickle, following an outage caused Monday when smugglers tapped a section of the pipeline in Urfa, roughly 370 kilometers from the Iraqi border.
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