As a result of sabotage, managed by the Kurdish militants, oil exports Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline linking the Iraqi deposits in the area g.Kirkuk with the Turkish port of Ceyhan, completely stopped.Recall that on the night of November 22, in south-east Turkey was blown up part of the Iraqi-Turkish oil pipeline Kirkuk-Ceyhan after an explosion caused heavy fire. The responsibility for the sabotage committed themselves militants Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). A similar attack on the pipeline occurred on 6 November. Then the explosion led to the leakage of oil within a radius of two kilometers from the epicenter. Power Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline is one million barrels a day, but now it is transported about 500 thousand barrels of oil per day. Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since 1984 fighting for an independent Kurdish state in south-eastern Turkey (the so-called Northern Kurdistan).
