Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi has rejected any role for Turkish forces in the upcoming offensive on an Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, as tensions between supposed coalition partners escalate. Iraq says the Turks are violating its sovereignty.
“Turkish forces will not be allowed to participate in the liberation of Mosul under any circumstances,” Abadi said during a visit to the city of Karbala on Sunday, reported the news channel Al Sumaria.
Abadi, who was addressing senior local officials, also condemned Ankara for “violating Iraq’s sovereignty” by maintaining an official deployment of 150 troops in Bashiqa, a training base outside Mosul, as well as a staff of “military advisors” likely numbering in the thousands...
“Turkish forces will not be allowed to participate in the liberation of Mosul under any circumstances,” Abadi said during a visit to the city of Karbala on Sunday, reported the news channel Al Sumaria.
Abadi, who was addressing senior local officials, also condemned Ankara for “violating Iraq’s sovereignty” by maintaining an official deployment of 150 troops in Bashiqa, a training base outside Mosul, as well as a staff of “military advisors” likely numbering in the thousands...
.... The Kurdish peshmerga fighters, who have formed an effective temporary alliance with the PMU, have their own designs upon the region, with officials saying that territory taken from IS will form a part of the future Kurdish state, an outcome that is unwelcome in Baghdad, and particularly Ankara, which has repeatedly labeled them as terrorists.
“Thousands of peshmerga soldiers have sacrificed their lives in freeing our areas. Therefore, we must repay them,” said Sheikh Ali Rekan, the leader of a local clan, which has pledged allegiance to the Kurds.
The Kurds have also been locked in a dispute over its oil exports from northern Iraq. Kurdish authorities have been exporting oil from the rich local fields, many of which they took back from Islamic State directly, i.e. avoiding any contact with the Iraqi government that nominally controls this area.
Iraq has offered to share oil revenue in exchange for regaining some control over the productive fields, but no definitive plan has been drawn up.....http://on.rt.com/7rf4
“Thousands of peshmerga soldiers have sacrificed their lives in freeing our areas. Therefore, we must repay them,” said Sheikh Ali Rekan, the leader of a local clan, which has pledged allegiance to the Kurds.
The Kurds have also been locked in a dispute over its oil exports from northern Iraq. Kurdish authorities have been exporting oil from the rich local fields, many of which they took back from Islamic State directly, i.e. avoiding any contact with the Iraqi government that nominally controls this area.
Iraq has offered to share oil revenue in exchange for regaining some control over the productive fields, but no definitive plan has been drawn up.....http://on.rt.com/7rf4
10/10/16
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