ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 27 (UPI) -- Turkey is flexing diplomatic muscle and showing it's ready to position itself as a key energy hub with the export of Kurdish oil, an international analyst said.
The semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government confirmed in a statement Friday a tanker loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil left a Turkish port, the first of what it said would be "many such sales of oil" from northern Iraq.