Turkey to take partial in Mosul operation: Erdogan
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reason a position on a tip of Mount Zardak, about 25 kilometres easterly of Mosul, on Oct 17, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday indicated that Turkey would play a purpose in a US-backed Iraqi descent to retake a city of Mosul from militants, observant it was inconceivable that Ankara would stay on a sidelines.
“We will be in a operation and we will be during a table,” Erdogan pronounced in a televised speech. “Our brothers are there and a kin are there. It is out of a doubt that we are not involved.”
The rave for a descent to retake Mosul from a Islamic State (IS) militants who have hold Iraq’s second city given Jun 2014 was noted by a sour quarrel between Ankara and Baghdad over a planning.
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But Erdogan had indicated that a emanate was discussed in talks in a United States over a weekend between Turkish arch of staff General Hulusi Akar and US reflection Joseph Dunford.
Turkey had lifted regard over a probable impasse of Iraqi Shia and anti-Ankara Kurdish company in a offensive, while Baghdad had lashed out during a participation of a fortuitous of Turkish infantry in Bashiqa north of Mosul.
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But Erdogan pronounced a Turkish infantry — whose charge is evidently to sight Sunni anti-IS fighters — were in Bashiqa to stay.
“No-one should design us to leave Bashiqa. We are there and have done all kinds of operations opposite Daesh (IS).”
In a pointer Ankara was perplexing to reduce a heat with Baghdad, a state-run Anadolu news group reported that a top-level Turkish commission was on a approach to a Iraqi collateral led by unfamiliar method undersecretary Umit Yalcin.
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