from about 150 thousand bpd a few weeks ago.

The Turkish Minister of Energy , Taner Yildiz told, Reuters reporters seen by "Shafaq News" that “ the rate of flow of crude oil from Kurdistan Region to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean amounted to 240 thousand bpd since the beginning of the week.”

Until late last month, Kurdistan loaded 19 tankers of about 13.7 million barrels of crude oil despite threats from Baghdad to prosecute the buyers.

Kurdistan Regional Government began exporting oil in May via an independent pipeline connects the Iraqi-Turkish on the Turkish side of the border between the two countries.

Baghdad strongly opposes Kurdistan region’s export of oil through Turkey independently and started to file a series of lawsuits to try to stop those sales.

While Kurdistan's government says that it has a right to sell oil under the Iraqi constitution.