Kurdish spokesman : `` We hope it is only a technical issue and it will be resolved soon '' Energy Minister Taner Yildiz 's plane was forced to turn around in mid-flight Tuesday . `` To ensure access to Kurdish oil and gas , Turkey has eased its trade , economic , diplomatic relations with the KRG . He was on his way to a conference in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq . The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Turkey would not allow any flights from its territory into Iraqi airspace until Baghdad clarified what happened with the downed plane.
Kurdish spokesman : `` We hope it is only a technical issue and it will be resolved soon '' Energy Minister Taner Yildiz 's plane was forced to turn around in mid-flight Tuesday . He was on his way to a conference in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq . The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Turkey would not allow any flights from its territory into Iraqi airspace until Baghdad clarified what happened with the downed plane.