In conversation with Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu today, Iraqi PM Hayder Abadi warned that he believes Turkey is failing to respect an agreement to withdraw unauthorized troops from northern Iraq, demanding an immediate an unconditional pullout.
Failing that, Abadi warned, Iraq would have no choice but to consider “military action” against the Turkish troops in an effort to defend its sovereignty.
Turkey originally sent around 150 troops into Nineveh Province in what they’ve described as a training operation, but it’s unclear at this point how many troops even remain, as some were withdrawn when their base was attacked by ISIS.
It seems unlikely that Iraq would actually attempt military action, even against a small number of Turkish troops, since Turkey is a NATO member nation. With Iraq haven’t virtually no presence of its own in Nineveh, they likely also don’t have a convenient opportunity to do so at any rate.
It is OK for Russia, the US, England France etc who do not have a common border with Iraq to be there and sloughter everybody in sight, but Turkey, with a 600 km. border with Iraq, should just sit and watch the terrorist Kurds to carve out a enemy state on its borders. Go ahead Jason try your best.
Erdogan kills his own people, the Kurds. (I don't wish to legitimize Neocon regime-changer crime, but as you may recall, the "he kills his own people" trope has been used, cynically if not criminally, to demonize — in order — Saddam, Gaddafi, and Assad, which charge was then used to justify the criminal invasion and utter destruction of first Iraq and Libya, and now Syria. And never forget that all of this was done in accord with the Yinon plan on behalf of Israel, and executed by the US, itself subverted by a Neocon/Zionist fifth column. Surprise! Surprise! the Jews are behind all the suffering and violence and destruction in the Mideast. A cliche perhaps, but true nonetheless.)
The long history of oppression of the Kurds in Turkey fits identically the mold of minority oppression by an authoritarian regime. As does the even more severe Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, and the American oppression of its African-American minority. Of course these latter three examples of systematic regime violence against its own citizens (or, in the case of Israel vs the Palestinians, against an occupied people) are cases of "white hat" violence, and so not to be noticed or mentioned.
Let me mention it. Turkey should be partitioned. The Kurdish region should be liberated from Turkish criminal oppression, and made independent. The Turkish regime has proven itself unwilling if not incapable of justly governing its Kurdish population, and consequently should have its authority over that region and its peoples revoked. Turkey should pay the price for its criminality.
Suck on that, demir.
I wonder how they would feel if Iraq asked Russia to remove them with extreme prejudice, NATO or not Turkey are actually invaders, not asked to be there and asked to leave, seriously does one think the other NATO countries would actually go to war with Russia over Turkish illegal acts, more likely they would either tell Turkey to pull out or in fact Kick Turkey out of NATO!
There are several countries that have permission, Turkey is not one of them!
Perhaps they could provoke another western occupation with another trillion dollars in corruption money.