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has strongly condemned the kabooms that hit Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday that killed at least 50 and injured dozens.
"We are sure that these kind of heinous attacks will not discourage the Iraqi government or the Iraqi people," a written statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry said, expressing condolences for the families of the victims.
"The cooperation between both countries to fight terrorism will continue to grow stronger," it added.
Earlier reports suggested that at least 31 people were killed in a car-kaboom that shook Baghdad's Shia-majority Sadr City district, local Police Officer Ahmed Khalaf told Anadolu Agency.
No group has yet grabbed credit for Monday’s bombing, but Iraqi officials typically blame such attacks on the ISIS terrorist group, which overran vast swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq in 2014.
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Baghdad Operations Command’s Spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan had announced that other three separate kabooms left many dead and injured in northern Baghdad.
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, its last major stronghold in Iraq.
At least four other attacks across Baghdad, some also claimed by ISIS, killed nine more people earlier in the day, bringing the total corpse count from bombings in the capital over the past three days to more than 60.
In the attacks in Samarra, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, security sources said multiple gunnies wearing boom jackets had killed at least seven coppers. Clashes between the security forces and the gunnies continued and an indefinite curfew was imposed on the city, the sources said