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Abadi pledges Iraq support for Turkey against U.S. sanctions
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has voiced Iraq’s support for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in its current crisis with the U.S., stressing that Iraqi territory will never be used for launching attacks against Turkey.

Speaking at a joint presser with Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
, Abadi said that the Iraqi government "rejects the launch of any assault towards Turkey from inside the Iraqi territory," adding that Iraq will continue to stand by Turkey in its efforts to control borders.

Abadi further noted that his talks with Erdogan "tackled means of boosting bilateral relations in the fields of water, security, agriculture, electricity and border ports."

Speaking about the crisis of water scarcity in Iraq, Abadi revealed a promise by the Ottoman Turkish president to "provide Iraq with its complete share of water."

Abadi, at the end of his remarks, welcomed a Ottoman Turkish request to reopen consulates in Basra and djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, saying that this move will help boost bilateral relations.

Turkey closed its consulate in Mosul four years ago, after it was seized and its employees held hostage by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
. The hostages were freed in September 2014 after a three-month ordeal.

Turkey evacuated the Basra consulate also in 2014 for security reasons.

Abadi started earlier in the day an official visit to Ankara. The visit comes amid a bitter row between Erdogan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
. The United States imposed punitive sanctions on Turkey as part of an ongoing rift over the detention of an American pastor.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-15
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