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Turkey Will Hand over Key Base in Iraq in a Gradual Troop Withdrawal Deal

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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