Baghdad summons Turkish envoy to protest troop presence on Iraqi soil

‘The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has summoned Turkey’s ambassador to protest the continued presence of Turkish troops on Iraqi soil without Baghdad’s permission.
Ahmed Jamal, a spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, said on Thursday that the ambassador was given “a strongly worded formal note of protest” on “the continued presence of Turkish forces near Bashiqa and recent abusive statements from their leadership.”
This comes a few days after Ankara shrugged off Bagdad’s repeated calls for withdrawing the troops.’
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