Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said that Turkey is a dear neighbor and an important country in the region, calling for the return of the railway from Basra to Turkey and from there to Europe.
This came during a meeting on Sunday in his office in Baghdad, Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Javishoglu, according to a statement of the Office of the Prime Minister of Iraq.
Until 1923, a railway line of 1,600 kilometers was connected between the cities of Konya, Adana and Aleppo, Baghdad and Basra.
"We do not just increase trade exchange between the two countries, but we invite Turkish businessmen and companies to establish factories, interests and economic partnerships within Iraq in the fields of industry, trade, reconstruction and investment of agricultural land," he added.
He said that this deepens the roots of cooperation and benefits the two countries and peoples and opens their markets to Iraqi, Turkish and joint products.
For his part, called for the Turkish Foreign Minister to raise the level of trade and the development of roads and rail, expressing the willingness of the Turkish side to cooperate on supplying Iraq with electricity.
The country is determined to raise the volume of trade with Iraq to the target of twenty billion dollars, said Mawlid Jawishoglu in a tweet published on his Twitter account.