Bayati: Turkmen reject deployment of Peshmerga in their areas

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP, Mohamed Mahdi al-Bayati, of the Turkmen National bloc confirmed that the Turkmen reject the deployment of the Peshmerga elements in their areas.

He stated to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) “The Turkmen calls for deploying only the Federal forces their areas and in case the Government failed in accomplishing this demand, we call to form armed Turkmen groups to protect the Turkmen.”

“The Turkmen do not welcome the Peshmerga in their areas and consider their deployment as an attempt to target them,” he concluded.

Earlier, President of Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, visited Peshmerga military forces in Kirkuk province on last Monday.

An informed source told Iraqi News on last Monday “Barzani has arrived in Kirkuk on Monday morning where he visited the sites of the Peshmerga forces in Lelian district of southern the province.”

The recent days witnessed less tension between the Central Government and the Kurdistani Regional Government than the previous escalated tension on the background of forming Dijla Operations Command and its deployment in the disputed areas.