(09.12.2013) The pipeline starts at Taq Taq oilfield, passes through Khurmala oilfield and reaches the North Kurdistan-South Kurdistan border (i.e., Iraq-Turkey border) in Fishkhabur. It connects there with another pipeline that runs to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. (…) The contract between Turks and Kurds was announced immediately after a landmark meeting that the South Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani (left picture) and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan maintained in mid November in Diyarbakir, the city regarded as the de facto capital of North Kurdistan.