Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (C) walks along side the Turkish Trade Minister Zafer Caglayan (L) and the Governor of the city of Basra Shiltagh Abud (2ndR) upon their arrival at the city's airport, 550 kms from Baghdad. Davutoglu also visited the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq, as part of Ankara's efforts to end a conflict with Kurdish rebels based across its southern border. Photo:Essam -al-Sudani/AFP