{"id":225732,"date":"2026-07-28T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/225732\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:24:07","slug":"al-zaidi-pushes-iraq-turkiye-partnership-ahead-of-ankara-visit-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/225732\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Zaidi pushes Iraq-Turkiye partnership ahead of Ankara visit – Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shafaq News-
\nBaghdad<\/p>\n

Hours before
\nhis scheduled visit to Ankara, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi said Iraq and
\nTurkiye have a “historic opportunity” to build one of the Middle
\nEast’s most significant economic partnerships. <\/p>\n

In an
\narticle published by Turkiye’s Anadolu Agency on Tuesday, Al-Zaidi said the two
\ncountries could transform their shared geography into a strategic economic
\ncorridor linking the Gulf, Asia, and Europe.<\/p>\n

He described
\nthe $17 billion Development Road<\/a> as a regional project that extends
\nbeyond Iraq, saying the 1,200-kilometer corridor connecting Grand Al-Faw Port
\nwith Turkiye through railways and highways would accelerate trade, create new
\ncities and industrial zones, attract investment, generate thousands of jobs,
\nand provide the region with \u201ca new economic artery linking ports to global
\nmarkets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al-Zaidi
\nalso stressed the need for closer security cooperation to combat terrorism and
\norganized crime while respecting each other’s sovereignty.<\/p>\n

On water
\nresources, the PM expressed hope for joint management based on mutual
\ninterests, scientific cooperation, and investment in modern technologies to
\nstrengthen water and food security in both countries.<\/p>\n

A government
\nsource previously told<\/a> Shafaq News that Al-Zaidi is scheduled to hold talks in
\nAnkara on Tuesday covering security, economic and investment cooperation, oil
\nand energy coordination, efforts to expand bilateral trade, and regional and
\ninternational developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-28T06:59:49+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Hours before his scheduled visit to Ankara,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[64475,30690,94,18365,10738],"class_list":["post-225732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-al-zaidi-pushes-iraq-turkiye-partnership-ahead-of-ankara-visit","tag-ali-al-zaidi","tag-iraq","tag-partnership","tag-turkiye"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116996411686173638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}