Iraq orders Turkey to 'immediately' withdraw troops sent across border
 

Prime minister?s office says the deployment of an armoured regiment ?is considered a serious violation of Iraqi sovereignty?




Iraq has told Turkey to ?immediately? withdraw forces, including tanks and artillery, it has deployed in the country?s north without Baghdad?s consent, the office of the prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said on Saturday.

?The Iraqi authorities call on Turkey to ... immediately withdraw from Iraqi territory,? the statement said.

?We have confirmation that Turkish forces, numbering about one armoured regiment with a number of tanks and artillery, entered Iraqi territory ... allegedly to train Iraqi groups, without a request or authorisation from Iraqi federal authorities,? it said.

The deployment ?is considered a serious violation of Iraqi sovereignty?, it added.

Turkish media reported that about 150 Turkish soldiers backed by 20 to 25 tanks had been sent by road to the Bashiqa area north-east of Mosul, the city that is Islamic State?s main hub in Iraq.

Peshmerga forces from Iraq?s autonomous Kurdish region are deployed in the area, and Turkey?s Anatolia news agency said the troops were there to train them.

Isis overran swaths of territory north and west of Baghdad in 2014, and Iraqi forces backed by US-led airstrikes are battling to push back the jihadis.

The peshmerga are one of the most effective Iraqi forces in the fight against Isis, but coordination between them and the federal government in Baghdad has generally been poor.

Iraq orders Turkey to 'immediately' withdraw troops sent across border | World news | The Guardian

I get the feeling that Turkey are secretly trying to expand their influence but are just really bad at keeping it a secret.

Turks "training" Kurdish fighters?

You are kidding me right?

Why the news here get posted 24 hours later than I have heard them in local news? Just curious...

LOL people would tend to say ..... :pimp

Turkish military to have a base in Iraq's Mosul - MIDEAST

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer ;O)

Cyber, your news is obsessed with crushing the war criminal Turks and our news is obsessed with Islamic Terrorist State copy-cat terrorists :2 cents:

ISIS may be getting confused by now hiding in the sewers of Al Raqqa from the occasional aerial bombardment -- they can no longer read the news on the Internet. So, it's the talking heads on the satellite TV ...

turkey is the enemy. :2 cents:

Because you live 24 hours away from the rest of us.

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