Reforming the Iraqi-Turkish trade balance Its impact on changing the reality of Iraqi-Turkish relations in favor of Iraq

Abstract

Despite the complex relations between Iraq and Turkey, which are mostly in the Turkish interest, especially the economic aspect, the Iraqi-Turkish trade balance shows the high volume of Iraqi imports from Turkey compared to the volume of exports, which are almost limited to raw materials, especially oil. However, it is noted that Turkey continues to pursue a policy that does not express good neighborliness, which appears in its political, economic, and water positions, which requires Iraq to reorganize the Iraqi economic side with Turkey in a way that ensures the repair of the trade deficit with Turkey, which increased after 2003, to be a pressure card on Turkey to reconsider its positions with Iraq, and gives Iraq a greater flexibility in response to these situations.