Turkey's relations with Iraq and Kurdistan regional government within the context of Turkey's energy security (2003-2019)

Security of energy can be described as accessible necessary amount of energy found in various forms. There is another explanation of security of energy, it is explained as to reach to the best quality of energy without damaging the environment in the right price. Security of energy is part of the International Relations hot topic and it is a term where it is very changeable and has many different aspects. This is the reason why every theory in International Relations has drawn a different point of view in security of energy. The base of energy security concept comes from 1990s and it became popular to use energy security in the context of International Relations since then. This study has been based theoretically on the exploration of the energy security concept. It analyzes Turkey's energy security relations with Iraq and North Iraq's Regional Government is starting from 2003 and to the present day. The timeline for the research that is included in the study is starting from 2003 to the end of 2019. The methodology of the study is based on snowball sampling that is composed of research that's been done with many face to face interviews and meetings with professional experts. Moreover, previous research on the subject has been used as the secondarydata. According to the findings of the study, Turkey's relations with the Kurdistan Reginal Goverment (KRG) and the Iraq Central Government is considered as the "Internal problems of the Iraq Government". Also, Turkey has been staying out of the political and governmental relations between Iraq Central Government and Kurdistan Regional Government and tries to keep a balanced political relations.