Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani (L) speaks during a joint news conference with Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz in Baghdad December 1, 2013. Oil exports from anywhere in Iraq to Turkey need the central government’s approval, Baghdad and Ankara said on Sunday after a bi-lateral meeting aimed at diffusing a row over energy exports from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region. Turkey, hungry for energy and dependent on imports for almost all of its needs, wants Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil to help diversify its energy supplies and reduce its ballooning $60 billion annual energy bill. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (IRAQ – Tags: POLITICS ENERGY BUSINESS)