More than one million barrels of Kurdish oil were shipped from Turkey to Europe yesterday, Turkey’s energy minister and the Iraqi Kurdish administration said, prompting Iraq to try and block the transaction. The oil was despatched from the Turkish Mediterranean oil terminal at Ceyhan at 10 p.m. yesterday, and was probably destined for Italy or Germany, Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said today. Iraq called the sale of the oil without the consent of its oil ministry “illegitimate.” Iraq began arbitration against the government of Turkey and a terminal operator in Ceyhan to prevent the transport, storage and loading of crude pumped directly by the Kurdistan Regional Government to Turkey, according to an e-mailed statement from Iraq’s Oil Ministry. The ministry and its official marketing company , SOMO, said yesterday that they “reserve the right” to embark on legal proceedings against companies loading Kurdish oil from Ceyhan without approval […]