Turkey to Hand over Military Base in Northern Iraq to Baghdad
- On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to transfer the Bashiqa-Zilkan Camp to Iraq and restore full state authority in Sinjar.
- The leaders met behind closed doors at the Turkish House in New York on the sidelines of the General Assembly to finalize the agreement.
- Both sides committed to ending the presence of "proscribed" foreign armed elements in Sinjar, a region still grappling with the shadow of the ISIS genocide Twelve years later.
- Turkey has maintained a military presence near Mosul since 2015, straining relations with Baghdad, though officials provided no specific date for the base's handover.
- Al-Zaidi and Erdogan also agreed to accelerate strategic projects including the Development Road to strengthen bilateral economic ties and expand trade investment.
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Turkey to hand over military base in northern Iraq to Baghdad
Turkey will gradually hand over control of its Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq to Baghdad, Ankara and Baghdad said Wednesday, in a move aimed at strengthening Iraqi state authority and easing a long-running source of tension between the neighbours.
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Turkey will hand over control of its base in Bashiqa in northern Iraq to Baghdad, the Turkish presidency announced on Wednesday in a joint statement with its neighbour. “In light of progress achieved by these security measures implemented by Iraq, Turkish forces will gradually hand over the Bashiqa-Zilkan base to the Federal Government of Iraq in accordance with the agreed mechanism and timetable,” a joint statement said. The announcement follow…
An important step towards establishing new security balances in northern Iraq is the joint statement adopted in New York by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi. The two sides agreed to the full restoration of Iraqi state authority in Shingal and the end of the presence of foreign armed forces, while linking progress in the security sector to the gradual handover of the Turkish military installation Bashiqa-Zilkan to the I…
Turkey and Iraq agree Turkey will turn over military camp in northern Iraq
Turkey has agreed to the gradual transfer of control of the Bashiqa-Zilkan military base, through a mutually agreed timetable. The post Turkey will hand over a military base located on Iraqi territory to the al-Zaidi government appeared first on in.gr.
The Turkish and Iraqi Governments have agreed that Ankara will give up its military base in northern Iraq to Baghdad, reports the newspaper Turkiye Today with reference to the declaration of the countries." According to the statement, with regard to Iraq's security achievements, Turkish troops will gradually transfer the military base of Basik-Zilkan to the Iraqi Federal Government, after agreement by the parties on the mechanism and timetable, …
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