Turkish troops will remain in Iraq

Turkish troops will remain in Iraq, said in Ankara. But their further deployment will be delayed. However, Baghdad wants to impose restrictive measures against its neighbor.

Turkey is not going to withdraw troops from areas of Iraq. This statement was made by the head of the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in a private conversation with an Iraqi colleague Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

However, Ankara still went on some concessions. Cavusoglu stressed that Turkey will temporarily stop the subsequent deployment of their own troops in the neighboring country, RIA Novosti reported citing Reuters.

Days.Roux wrote that Baghdad is considering retaliatory measures. The government wants the power to apply to the UN Security Council, the Arab League, and still wishes to enter Turkey against financial penalties.

According to some reports, the number of Turkish military, which crossed the border with Iraq, reaches thousands of people. Besides all this, the invasion took part of military equipment - tanks and armored personnel carriers.

In Turkey announced that the troops arrived in Iraq to prepare the Kurds to war with the "Islamic state" (organization banned in Russia) in the framework of the international coalition. However this annoying "help" in Baghdad has chosen to consider the act of aggression.

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