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| Iraq |
| Turkey pulls out troops from camp near Mosul |
| 2015-12-15 |
| [ARABNEWS] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... withdrew troops Monday from a north Iraq camp, a politician and witnesses said, after a deployment which Baghdad said went ahead without its permission and that sparked a diplomatic row. It was not immediately clear how many soldiers were removed from the camp, where Ankara sent troops and tanks on a deployment last week it said was routine and necessary to protect Turkish trainers working with Iraqi forces battling Daesh [Islamic State]. Baghdad has sharply criticized the deployment, terming it an "incursion" that violated the country's illusory sovereignty, repeatedly demanding the forces be withdrawn and complaining to the UN Security Council. "The Turkish Army withdrew from Camp Zilkan at dawn today, and according to our information, only the trainers remain to train Hashad Al-Watani forces," MP Salem Al-Shabaki said, referring to anti-Daesh [Islamic State] forces and the site where they were being trained. "Witnesses confirmed that they saw the Turkish Army withdrawing from Camp Zilkan... toward the Turkish border," Shabaki said. Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency quoted military sources as saying that "some of the Turkish troops stationed in Bashiqa have transited to the north as part of a new arrangement." But did not specify if they were moving farther north into Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, the government of which has strong relations with Ankara, or leaving altogether. Anatolia said the troops were carried in a convoy of 10-12 military vehicles but did not give further details on numbers. Witnesses in Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan reported seeing Turkish military equipment being moved on transport trucks toward the border. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Turkish Army withdrew from Camp Zilkan at dawn today Look for the bombings to begin in 3..2..1.. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-12-15 10:49 |