Turkey, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates signed a memorandum of understanding in Baghdad to cooperate on the Iraq Development Road project that would connect the Gulf to Europe, during a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. The deal was inked by the transportation ministers from each country in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani and Erdogan, who was on his first visit to Iraq in 12 years. The memorandum commits the signatory states to establish the necessary frameworks to implement the project, which aims to establish a 1,200km highway and railway project that ... (full story)