Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to make his first official visit to Iraq in over a decade on Monday, with the aim of strengthening cooperation between the two countries. One of the key issues on the agenda is Turkey's fight against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish militant group with a presence in northern Iraq.
Other significant topics to be discussed during Erdogan's visit include water supply issues and the resumption of oil and gas exports from northern Iraq to Turkey, which have been halted for more than a year. The last time Erdogan visited Iraq was in 2011 when he was serving as Turkey's prime minister.
