In the Kurdish capital of Irbil, a new world of luxury stores, hotels and restaurants has emerged due to Turkish investment.<br /><br />The Kurdish region was one of the poorest in Iraq, but in the past five years tens of billions of dollars have been<br />invested there. <br /><br />There are more than 1,000 Turkish companies registered, and Turkish construction workers are changing Irbil's skyline using an estimated 30,000 Turkish labourers from its own economically depressed Kurdish areas.<br /><br />This leads many to believe that Turkey's closer relationship with Iraq is not only political, but economic.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Irbil, Iraq
