Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan: From Cold War to Warm Peace

Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan: From Cold War to Warm Peace

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq -- Just a quick tour of the markets in any Kurdish city in northern Iraq is all that is needed to illustrate how far relations with Turkey, the once-hostile neighbor to the north, have come.

Supermarket shelves are packed with Turkish goods, while new malls are flooded with Turkish brands. And many of the major business contracts, from airports to roads, go to Turkish companies.

Turkey threatened Iraqi Kurdistan with an extensive military offensive just a couple of years ago, but the invasion that did occur was of a completely different nature.

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