Ministry of Foreign Affairs: No Retraction from Mosul but Transition Stopped

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç in his announcement as to the meeting held between Turkish Minister of Foreign Affair, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and his counterpart, Ibrahim al Jafaari, has said there is no retraction, yet added “but the transition stopped”.

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Bilgiç expressing “There is no retraction in Mosul now but the transition stopped. We are not new in Mosul as Turkey”, said that training given by soldiers of Turkey to Peshmerga and soldiers in Iraq will sustain in cooperation with Baghdad administration.

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What had happened?

Turkey sending between 100 and 400 soldiers and 25 tanks according to different sources to the unit in Bashiqa near Mosul, which is located there for a year, has led to a crisis with Iraq.

Iraq administration reacting against the move evaluated it as “violation of sovereignty and against principle of good neighborhood relation”.

While Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu wrote a letter to Iraqi administration, Iraqi side said, “In case Turkey doesn’t withdraw its forces in 48 hours, [Iraq] has all kinds of rights to resort to different options including appealing to ‘United Nations Security Council’.”

U.S. Secretary of Defense expressed that they don't support "deploying soldier within the country without consent of Iraqi government". (YY/TK)