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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAn army commander informs Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, left, on a Turkey-Iraq border map on Sept. 5, 2016, in Cukurca, Turkey. Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Turkeys’ ambassador to Baghdad over “provocative” comments by Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim about the planned operation to dislodge Islamic State militants from the city of Mosul. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Pool photo via AP<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Iraq, the parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution denouncing the extension of Turkish troops’ presence and asking the government to consider them as “occupation forces.” Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi later told reporters the presence of Turkish troops “is one of the challenges” ahead of the Mosul operation, warning that Ankara’s insistence could lead to a “regional warfare.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Ankara, the Iraqi envoy was summoned for a protest over the Iraqi parliament resolution. The Foreign Ministry said Turkey has for years suffered from terror threats arising from instability in Iraq and had strongly supported Iraq’s territorial integrity, stability and security. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus defended the Turkish presence in Iraq and also Syria, saying it’s “not meant as an invasion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We have no intention of interfering in those countries’ interior affairs,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city about 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, is the last remaining IS urban stronghold in Iraq. The government is now gearing up for a major offensive to retake Mosul from IS and has pledged to recapture the city this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turkey and Iraq summoned each other’s ambassadors on Wednesday to protest statements by one country’s prime minister and the other’s parliament, a move reflecting growing tensions between the two neighbors, both fighting the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":39165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2573,1501],"class_list":["post-17161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flashpoints"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"LILQQBRCGRCHFLAOUV62CTTSK4","arc_canonical_url":"\/flashpoints\/2016\/10\/05\/iraq-turkey-summon-each-other-s-ambassadors-in-protest\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n