BAGHDAD, May 10 (Reuters) - The Kurdish government has received permission from the Iraqi Oil Ministry to export oil from fields in the largely autonomous Kurdish region through Iraq's national pipeline, a top Kurdish official said on Sunday.
"Today I received an email message from the Iraqi Oil Ministry sending us their approval for the Kurdish government to export oil through the Iraqi pipelines to Ceyhan," in Turkey, Ashti Hawrami, Kurdish natural resources minister, told Reuters.
The Kurdish government said late last week it would begin exporting oil from its Tawke field on June 1 through an Iraq-Turkey pipeline, a move for which the central government in Baghdad has long refused to grant permission. (Reporting by Sherko Raouf; Writing by Missy Ryan; Editing by Greg Mahlich)