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Turkey: ‘Miscommunication’ over Iraq troop deployments
The welcome by Iraqi cabinet came following a Turkish statement on Saturday which said that it is continuing withdrawal of its troops from Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh. “Our military men stationed there respect the territorial integrity of Iraq”, Davutoglu noted.
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He also stated that the Turkish troops would stay on in Iraq until Mosul had been freed from Daesh occupation.
The Turkish government has said miscommunication led to a recent row with Baghdad over the presence of Turkish troops in northern Iraqi town of Bashiqa to support training of Iraqi forces against Daesh, Anadolu agency reported.
The Ankara-Baghdad spat has been an unwelcome setback to USA efforts to accelerate the fight against Islamic State extremists.
As Obama and Erdoğan spoke on the phone, Iraq pushed the UN Security Council to condemn the “Turkish occupation” of Iraq. It is possible that he invited the Turks into Northern Iraq. To resolve the latest crisis, Ankara sent Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and spy chief Hakan Fidan to Baghdad last week for bilateral talks.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has welcomed Turkey’s moving its troops from Mosul’s Bashiqa camp as a “step in the right direction”.
Turkey has consistently claimed the troops were deployed in order to train local Kurdish Peshmerga forces, adding that the move complied with previous agreements between Ankara and Baghdad.
When asked by reporters whether his country will resort to force to remove the Turkish troops, al-Jaafari said his country has no intention of starting a war with other countries, but “all options are available”.
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“We have been calling on the Iraqi government to stop the activities of the PKK”.