Syria-Iraq oil pipeline not a threat to Turkey, Energy Minister says

Turkey does not oppose the rehabilitation of an oil pipeline between Iraq and Syria that would provide an alternative export route to the Strait of Hormuz for Baghdad’s crude, Turkey’s Energy Minister has said. “We are not afraid” of the Kirkuk to Baniyas pipeline, the Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar, said in response to a question from The National during a…