As relations cool with Turkey, the Israel Corp. chairman met with Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq last month.
Israel Corp. (TASE:ILCO) chairman Idan Ofer visited the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq last month according to a report on the French website JSS News. The report claimed that Ofer met with Kurdish Vice President Kosrat Rasul and his son Darbaz Rasul on May 27 and is considering setting up an oil refinery in the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk together with European businesspeople.
According to the report Ofer arrived with a delegation of businesspeople and met in Sulaymaniyah with the Kurdish leaders and other senior local figures. The report said, "Kurdish sources expressed great interest at the possibility of Israeli involvement in the region, especially against the background of the cooling of of relations between Turkey and Israel."
Idan Ofer's spokesman Rani Rahav told "Globes," "We do not comment on Idan Ofer's daily affairs and private business."
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on June 24, 2010
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