Iraq says Turkey relations can not improve without troop withdrawal: TV
Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi hold a joint news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, January 7, 2017. Hakan Goktepe/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Handout via REUTERS
(Reuters) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday relations with northern neighbour Turkey could “not move forward one step” without a withdrawal of Turkish forces from a camp in northern Iraq, state television reported.
Turkish forces have been stationed at Bashiqa camp near Mosul since before the start of an offensive against Islamic State.