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| Turkey says its troops to stay in Iraq until Islamic State cleared from Mosul |
| 2016-10-14 |
| [Rooters] A planned U.S.-backed operation to drive 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... from the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... could cause "blood and fire" in the region if not carefully handled, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... warned on Wednesday, saying it would keep troops nearby despite Baghdad's opposition. President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey, locked in an escalating row with Iraq over who should take part in the planned Mosul assault, would do all it could to prevent the operation from deepening sectarian conflict on its borders. "We will use all our resources to prevent our brothers in Syria and Iraq from being crushed under the wheels of global power games, and to keep us from suffering a similar fate," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul. "We are determined to deflate the balloon of sectarian conflict aimed at drowning the region in blood and fire." Soldiers from Turkey, a regional power with the second largest armed forces in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... , have been training Sunni Moslem and Kurdish Peshmerga units at the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq, and want them to take part in the expected battle for Mosul. But their presence has sparked a row with the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad, which is keen that its forces be at the forefront of the offensive. The United States on Tuesday urged the two governments to resolve the spat, which could affect the planned U.S.-backed assault. It said any foreign forces in Iraq should be there with the approval of the Baghdad government and under the umbrella of the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State. "Turkey does not move on orders from others ... Turkey’s presence in the Bashiqa camp will remain until Mosul is rid of ISIS," Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, using an acronym for Islamic State. "Whoever the Mosul population is, Arabs or Turkmen, they have lived together for centuries and will continue to do so. If you change the ethnic structure here, the people there will not allow it ... This is our perspective as Turkey. Turkey’s force in the region cannot be questioned," he said. Turkey's parliament voted two weeks ago to extend the deployment of an estimated 2,000 troops across northern Iraq by a year to combat "terrorist organizations" - a wording broad enough to refer to Kurdish turbans as well as Islamic State. |
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