The Turkish government says its soldiers in Iraq are on training missions with Sunni Arab groups and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters who are battling the Islamic State organisation.
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He said that since the closed door briefing to the Security Council on 8 December 2015 by UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenea on the Turkish troop deployment in northern Iraq, Baghdad and Ankara have held high-level bilateral discussions on this issue.
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The Turkish Foreign Ministry said it was taking into account Iraqi concerns and removing its forces from a military base near Mosul.
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The move comes just one day after U.S. President Barack Obama urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take steps to “de-escalate” tensions.
The ministry said that Turkey would continue to move some of its troops out of Nineveh province, where the camp is based.
Turkey responded by accusing Iraq of sabotaging the fight against Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL). Baghdad has criticised the deployment and demanded Turkey pull them out.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Monday that he was pleased with Ankara’s move.
Iraq submitted a formal complaint to the United Nations to call for the removal of Turkish forces.
Obama’s outreach marked the latest effort in an ongoing US diplomatic campaign to resolve the spat between Iraq and Turkey, and followed phone calls earlier in the week between Vice President Joe Biden and the prime ministers of both Iraq and Turkey.
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“We said it before, we will say it again, and we will keep repeating until we put an end to all the baseless allegations: Turkey has never had and will never have any interest in violating Iraq’s sovereignty”, Cevik said.
