Tensions between Iraq and Turkey are once again on the rise, after the Friday deployment of Turkish ground troops into northern Iraq, a move Turkey said was meant to train Kurdish Peshmerga forces, but which came without any permission from the central government.
Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder Abadi today gave Turkey 48 hours to withdraw all troops from his country, warning that the nation would use “all available options,” including asking the UN Security Council to intervene, if Turkey insisted on staying.
Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu said that the Turkish government would halt any further transfer of troops into Iraq “for now,” and other Turkish officials suggested that they were hoping to come to an agreement on the matter.
Davutoglu did not, however, make any comment on what was going to happen with the troops Turkey has already sent into Iraq, meaning that 48-hour ultimatum is still ticking down. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), whose troops the Turkish forces are there to train, have by and large stayed out of the matter.
i suppose if the iraqi pm invites putin to send in a few planes
to take out those invading tanks……………
The idea may be to have Iraq appeal to Putin for help and see what happens. If Putin sends in troops, he's bogged down in yet another fight. If he refuses to help, he's seen as backing down. He would lose either way.
Good. These countries need to start taking back their sovereignty.
The USG war profiteers see another opportunity to make a quick buck off
arms sales – to both Iraq and Turkey.
Erdogan has lost his marbles! He shoots down a Russian Jet for violating Turkey's air space and murders Russian pilots for an infringement which lasted only a matter of minutes yet he has the nerve to move his tanks and troops inside Iraqi sovereign borders.
Off with his head!
"allegedly" violating turkey's air space. our media has run with the turkish
radar track, which appears to have been drawn by hand with crayon.
russian and syrian radar shows the russian jet was at all times in syrian
territory. but of course them commies always lie…unlike the pentagon.
regardless, if the russian jet did enter syrian airspace, it was for about
7 seconds, and was shot down long after (in jet time) returning to
syria. there are indications that the turkish jets fired from inside
syrian territory.