Joint operations to respond to Washington's comments on Turkey's participation in the battle of Mosul

10/22/2016
BAGHDAD / Sky Press
We denied the Joint Special Operations Command, the Sabbath, as announced by Washington on the tentative agreement between Iraq and Turkey to give Ankara the role and participation of the process of liberation of the city of Mosul Daesh terrorist gangs. A statement by the cell media war received "Sky Press," "no truth declared Iraq and Turkey reached agreement and the role of Turkey in the liberation of Mosul process." He added, "These operations are led by the Iraqi planning and implementation Daesh against terrorism and to free our people in Nineveh and in defense of the sovereignty of Iraq and his land." The US defense secretary, Ashton Carter, announced earlier on Friday during his visit to Turkey that Ankara and Baghdad have reached a preliminary agreement on Turkey's role in the Battle of Mosul. He supported the US defense secretary Turkey's role in the fight against Daesh in Syria and Iraq. The announcement came during a visit by US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, to Ankara, where he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister Ben Ali Yildirim, and Defense Minister Fikri Aahak. Said Ashton Carter, told reporters on the plane that carried him to Turkey, said that respect for the sovereignty of Iraq "important principle" respected by all the other members of the alliance. As a senior US official in the defense ministry said, requesting anonymity, said Washington has asked the parties to the alleviation of their remarks. The official added: "We talked behind the scenes to push the Iraqis and the Turks to reach an understanding on how to move forward on Mosul, the Turkish presence in Iraq." The Iraqi government categorically rejects the participation of any foreign power ground operation, Turkish troops stationed in the camp and was considered Ba'shiqah district north of Mosul as "hostile". He visited Monday, an official delegation from Turkey to Baghdad to discuss resolving the crisis, but the Foreign Ministry, said that the delegation "presented ideas have not lived up to the withdrawal of their forces from Iraq."

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