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Turkish Petroleum Company
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Iraq Petroleum Company.
Turkish Petroleum Company
The forerunner of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) was the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), which was established in the early 20th century in the belief that Mesopotamia (Iraq and parts of Syria) contained substantial reservoirs of oil. It was created by Calouste Gulbenkian, a British-Armenian oil magnate.