mon 14 dec 2015, 18:26

Turkey gets part of troops away from Mosul

ISTANBUL –

Turkey has a part of his troops from a military camp north of the Iraqi city of Mosul withdrawn. A convoy of twelve vehicles in the framework of a redeployment from the area removed, reported the Turkish news agency Anatolia on Monday.

Betogers in Basra eisen dat Turkije zich terugtrekt uit het noorden van Irak.

Demonstrators in Basra to demand that Turkey withdraws from the north of Iraq.
Photo: AP

According to Kurdish sources in northern Iraq, twenty soldiers, three tanks, and armored vehicles in the direction of the border left. For more than a week to make Ankara and Baghdad dispute over the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq. According to Turkey, they are not combat units, but they should all present soldiers protect Iraqi and Kurdish troops to train. The Iraqi government filed a complaint in the UN Security council.

The Turkish government claims that the commitment with the consent of Iraq has happened. But the government in Baghdad denies that strongly.

The American vice-president Joe Biden welcomed the partial withdrawal and urged Turkey to continue to cooperate with Baghdad. In an interview with the Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Biden that the removal of Turkish troops from camp-Bashiqa “an important step is to make the recent tensions to de-escalate,” according to the White House in a statement. Biden reiterated that the government of Iraq to allow for foreign military presence.