Iraq: Turkey is undesirable in Iraq
Shafaq News / The Iraqi authorities canceled the visit of the Turkish Minister of Defense, and summoned the ambassador from Ankara on the background of the killing of two Iraqi officers on Tuesday in a Turkish drone attack on the PKK sites in Kurdistan.
The killing of the two Iraqi officers prompted Baghdad to take strict measures, as the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Baghdad was “no longer willing to receive the Turkish Defense Minister on Thursday”, in a measure that could worsen the relations between the two neighboring countries.
The ministry also announced that the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad would be summoned again for the third time since June, “handing him a strongly worded note to be informed that Iraq refused his country's assaults."
The Iraqi Presidency condemned, on Tuesday, the "flagrant aggression" of Turkey by bombing the Sidekan area in Kurdistan, considering it ”serious violation" of the country's sovereignty.
For his part, The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool said, “Iraqi will not allow the loss of Iraqis, calling on Turkey to clarify the circumstances of the bombing that killed border guards”.
In this regard, the Ministry of Interior in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq called, on Tuesday, Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party to keep their conflict away from the region.
Despite the Iraqi protests, Ankara affirms that it has the right to confront PKK, which Turkey, the United States and the European Union considers it a "terrorist organization".
