http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/world/middleeast/05turkey.html?pagewanted=all
Iraqis waited outside the Turkish Consulate in Erbil to obtain visas to visit Turkey.
Travel requirements have been lifted and the consulate issues as many as 300 visas a day.
Resurgent Turkey Flexes Its Muscles Around Iraq
While the United States invaded and occupied Iraq, losing more than 4,400 troops there, Turkey now exerts what may prove a more lasting legacy so-called soft power, the assertion of influence through culture, education and business. (...)
On the road from Erbil to Baghdad, its pop culture is everywhere.
Iraqis waited outside the Turkish Consulate in Erbil to obtain visas to visit Turkey.
Travel requirements have been lifted and the consulate issues as many as 300 visas a day.