sat 19 dec 2015, 22:04

Turkey pulls troops back from Northern Iraq

ANKARA –

In turkey his troops to withdraw from the north of Iraq. That has the Turkish ministry of Foreign Affairs Saturday to let you know. Turkey had at the beginning of this month, hundreds of soldiers sent to the military base Bashiqa in Mosul, in the northern province of Nineveh.

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That would have happened at the request of Iraq to the Iraqi armed forces to help in the fight against Islamic State, but Baghdad says not to know and claimed that Turkey’s military would withdraw. “A misunderstanding,” says Turkey now.

Us president Barack Obama insisted on Friday with his Turkish counterpart Erdogan that his troops would be pulling out of Northern Iraq.