Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani (R) is received by his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul. Photo: DHA Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani (R) is received by his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul. Photo: DHA ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani was in Ankara Monday for important talks on oil exports and revenues, officials said. Safeen Dizayee, spokesman of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), told Rudaw that the visit could mean Kurdish civil servants finally getting paid at the end of this month, after going without salaries since Baghdad froze budget payments early this year. “We requested that Turkey import more Kurdish oil,” Dizayee said. He revealed that current exports were 120,000 barrels per day (bpd), and that “we will try to raise the rate to 400,000 bpd by the end of the year.” Despite the fact it has at least $93 million in its account at Halkbank, […]