URGENT: Maliki demands Turkish parliament backtrack its decision to send ground troops into Iraq
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) On Friday the Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki demanded the Turkish parliament back down from its decision to send ground troops to Iraq. He denounced it as unjustified and an encroachment on the sovereignty of Iraqi territory, urging the Iraqi government and the Iraqi parliament to take explicit positions to reject the deployment of any troops on Iraqi territory. Maliki stressed the need not to take the situation in Iraq as a chance to intervene in its internal affairs by the neighboring countries and the world.
Maliki said in a statement issued today and received by IraqiNews.com that “I want to remind Turkey of the need to maintain the relations of mutual respect and national sovereignty,” calling on the Turkish Parliament to “undo the decision of sending ground troops to Iraq because it is unjustified overtake on the sanctity and sovereignty of Iraqi territory.”