Iraqi Ministry stops registering Turkish companies
Issue 932
- 28 Sep 2012
| 3 minute read
Iraq announced on 13 September that it had stopped registering Turkish companies, raising fears that the political sourness between the two nations could spill into the business arena. Coming just two days after Ankara’s vocal support for Iraqi vice president Tareq Al-Hashemi, whom Iraq wants to execute and Turkey will not extradite, the trade ministry in Baghdad said the move was for regulatory, rather than political, purposes.
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