WIRE — Sinan Ciddi Bridget Toomey August 5, 2026 Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay There is an easy way to read Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to host Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi in Ankara on July 28, and to call the visit "historic": as an energy story, a pipeline story, a story about barrels and stakes. That reading is not wrong, but simply incomplete. For two decades, Turkey's dealings with Baghdad focused on strategizing against the Kurdistan Workers' Party — a separatist Kurdish entity intent on seceding territory from Turkey, conducting cross-border raids, and maintaining a network of bases holding no fewer Read More
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