Iraq to complain to the UN over Turkish air strikes

Shafaq News / the parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee called on the Iraqi government to complain to the UN Security Council over Turkish airstrikes that killed border guards on Tuesday.

The committee said in a statement received by Shafaq News agency, that it "affirms its condemnation of the Turkish airstrikes, which has not stopped for years on Iraq.”

it added, "While we support the government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement related to these attacks, we affirm our demands that decisive measures should be taken to prevent any other attacks to preserve the sovereignty of Iraq,” declaring that one of the measures is” to complain to the UN Security Council."

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry stressed "the need for the Turkish government to immediately stop the bombing and withdraw its aggressive forces from all Iraqi territories."

The killing of the two Iraqi officers prompted Baghdad to take strict measures, as the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Baghdad was “no longer willing to receive the Turkish Defense Minister on Thursday”, in a measure that could worsen the relations between the two neighboring countries.

The ministry also announced that the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad had summoned for the third time since June, “handing him a strongly worded note to be informed that Iraq refused his country's assaults."