During a joint press conference with the EU foreign policy chief, the President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, stressed the region's commitment to maintaining the principles of freedom of expression and peaceful religious and ethnic coexistence in the region.
While it's unclear if the Turkish president's threat to pull out of a 1936 maritime treaty will be followed by any action, it should not be taken too lightly given his track record of doing everything he says he will.