Turkey summoned Iraq's ambassador to Ankara to protest claims that it has been meddling in its neighbor's affairs by voicing concerns about a domestic political crisis, a diplomatic source said Tuesday.Feridun Sinirlioglu, the foreign ministry's undersecretary, told the Iraqi envoy Monday that the accusation of interference was "unacceptable" and Turkey had a legitimate right to be concerned about events on the other side of its borders.
"Iraq's stability concerns all its neighbors including Turkey and this did not mean intervention," Sinirlioglu told the envoy, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse.