Turkey today announced a military cooperation agreement with Iraq to set up joint command and training centers against the militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Baghdad has decided to ban as a party. “We will increase our cooperation to the highest level thanks to the joint command and training centers included in our agreement,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said after a closed-door meeting in Ankara with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein. According to his ministry, “the establishment of a joint security coordination center is underway in Baghdad” and at the same time “a joint training and cooperation center is being formed in Basika”, near Mosul, in northern Iraq. Fidan, who spoke to reporters alongside Hussein, hailed a “historic agreement” and noted “a growing Iraqi awareness of the PKK.” For the Iraqi minister, “the presence of PKK elements in Qandil, Mahmour and Sinjar […]
Source: News Beast
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