Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement demanding the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops who entered northern Iraq earlier today, saying the deployment was unauthorized and a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
The Turkish troops, backed by tanks and artillery, crossed into the Nineveh Province in what Turkey is describing as a “training operation,” with the troops planning to remain around the area to train Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Kurdish officials confirmed the deployment, and confirmed Turkish reports that there were already troops on the ground in Iraqi Kurdistan before today’s deployments. The size of the deployment is still in dispute, with some claiming 100, and others claiming “hundreds” of troops.
The US appeared aware that Iraq was going to object to the deployment, and was quick to confirm that the Turkish troops had nothing to do with the US-led coalition against ISIS, which Turkey is also a part of.
yesterday Turkey violated the airspace of Greece, now it is violating the sovereignty of Iraq and it believes it has every right to do so and still believes it was right to shoot down the Russian Jet.
In terms of Turkey's own "rules of engagement" Greece will be within its rights to blow all Turkish planes out of the sky and for Iraq to expel the Turkish invasion of northern Iraq. Turkey does this because it feels its neighbours are too weak to resist. It shows Turkey's terrorist mindset.
Iraq would undoubedly be within its rights to expel the Turkish invasion, just as Ukraine would be within its rights to expel Putin's invasion of its territory. Turkey is Iraq's former colonial master, so relations will always be a bit prickly. The same goes for Greece and although I can find no trace of a violation of Greek airspace yesterday, given the geography of the Aegean, such violations must be fairly common. Since both have been NATO members since 1949 and haven't gone to war yet, I think it's safe bet that they won't go to war with each other anytime soon.
All the proof and violation of Greece airspace, shooting down Russian Jet,Turkish land invasion and trading in stolen Syrian oil should be legitimate reasons to send Erogan to la Hague and reasons enough to turf him out of NATO and deny him membership to the EU
Perhaps he would sing like a bird and take his other belligerent cohorts down with him