SILOPI - Turkey on Tuesday started electricity transfer to Iraq from Silopi TS 1 and 2 thermal power plants belonging to Black Sea Wholesale Electricity Corp (KARTET).
Speaking at a ceremony held on the occasion, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hilmi Guler said Silopi would be a free energy zone.
Major General David H. Petraeus responsible for command of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Mosul Governor Ganim al-Basso, Mosul Mayor Ghanim al-Boso, governors of Sirnak and Mardin provinces, Energy Ministry officials and some Iraqi officials participated in the ceremony.
Guler said a private Turkish firm transferred electricity to Iraq, and that this was meaningful. He said Turkey would always expend support to Iraq people.
Guler said water, diesel oil and gasoline would also be transferred to Iraq after electricity energy.
Guler said some departments of energy ministry would try to repair some defective lines in Iraq.
Guler said private sector in Turkey would launch some new initiatives, stating that, ''our government will implement an influential energy policy and initiate a new period.''
Stressing that they were also planning to transfer oil and water to Iraq, Guler said they planned to transfer the services in question through railways.
(AY-AÖ) 23.09.2003