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| Turkey, Iraq agree on Ankara’s involvement in Mosul op |
| 2016-10-22 |
| Ankara and Baghdad have agreed in principle over the former’s much-debated involvement in a military operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Oct. 21, private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported. Carter said the details of Ankara’s possible role in the operation had not been shaped yet as they were also awaiting confirmation from Baghdad. "That will have to obviously be something that the Iraqi government will need to agree to and I think there's agreement there in principle," Carter told reporters travelling with him in Turkey, according to Reuters. "But now we're down to the practicalities of that ... and that's what we're working through," he said. Turkey and the United States have reached an agreement in which Turkish warplanes will join an ongoing operation to capture Mosul, Turkey’s Prime Minister, Binali Yıldırım, said on Oct. 18, adding that Turkey’s F-16 Fighting Falcons would be called for duty by the Kuwait-based command center if required. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 He dreams of Ottoman empire v.2, phil_b, with himself as the sultan. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-22 18:16 |
| #1 ERDOGAN: "Mosul is ours, I'm giving a history lesson" https://twitter.com/cumhuriyetgzt/status/789810216326094848 … Popcorn anyone. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2016-10-22 17:25 |