Turkey to explore oil in Qandil in Kurdistan region

by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) should pave the way for this to happen.

Yildiz said a press conference briefed by Reuters that Turkey owns blocks it wants to explore in the foothills of the Qandil mountains, a remote corner of Kurdish-run northern Iraq dominated by the PKK, which is negotiating a peace process with Turkish authorities to end a 30-year insurgency inside Turkey.

The call was welcomes by the Kurdish fighters and Ankara both in a move that paves the way to end the ongoing conflict since 1984.