Did Turkey Just Invade Iraq To Protect Erdogan’s ISIS Oil Smuggling Routes?

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• Did Turkey Just Invade Iraq To Protect Erdogan’s ISIS Oil Smuggling Routes?
  by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com/  
  On Friday, Turkey sent troops into Iraq. Here’s a video of the deployment shared on social media: (top of post)
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  Contrary to what you might have read, there’s really nothing unusual about that. 
  …. What’s different this time around, is that this isn’t a Kurd-chasing mission. 
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  In fact, if you believe the official line, it’s the exact opposite. Turkey has apparently had some 90 troops on the ground in Bashiqa “for two years” on a mission to “train” the Peshmerga. The new troops – around 150 personnel supported by two dozen tanks- will “take over the mission,”according to Hurriyet. “Turkey will have a permanent military base in the Bashiqa region of Mosul as the Turkish forces in the region training the Peshmerga forces have been reinforced,” the daily continues, adding that “the deal regarding the base was signed between Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani and Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu, during the latter’s visit to northern Iraq on Nov. 4.” 
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  Ok, so what’s important to remember here is that although Erdogan is no “fan-o’-Kurds”, Ankara is friendly with the KRG and indeed, Barzani’s 632,000 b/d oil operation (which, you’re reminded, runs independent of SOMO, much to Baghdad’s chagrin) depends heavily on a pipeline that runs from Iraq to Ceyhan. Over the summer, the PKK attacked the pipeline costing the KRG some $250 million in lost revenue. As Rudaw noted at the time, that amounts to an entire month’s worth of salaries for the Peshmerga and other security forces, underscoring the extent to which oil sales via Turkey are crucial to the government in Erbil.
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