An oil tanker carrying more than a million barrels of crude from Iraqi Kurdistan across the Mediterranean Sea on Friday signaled a shift in Iraq’s political and economic landscape. The ship bears the first load of oil that was recently piped from Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region into neighboring Turkey, where it was loaded at a port and is being shipped to world markets. Its voyage represents an act of defiance of Iraq’s newly elected central government by Turkish and Kurdish authorities. The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday called the shipment an “illegitimate deed” and said it would file a complaint against Turkey in the International Court of Arbitration for abetting the sales. Mr. Maliki, whose party won the most seats in parliamentary elections last month, maintains that the Kurds must market the crude through Iraq’s oil-sales system, which would then pass a portion of the […]