The Arab League supports any Iraqi move against the "Turkish aggression"
Shafaq News / The Arab League announced, on Wednesday, its support for any move the Iraqi government takes to stop the repeated Turkish military incursions to Iraqi lands.
The league's secretary-general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said in a statement, "We condemn in the strongest terms the Turkish bombing on August 11th on the Sidekan area on the Turkish-Iraqi border, which resulted in the martyrdom of two officers and a soldier from the Iraqi armed forces and other innocent civilians".
"This is a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Iraq, the principles and charters of international law and the principle of good neighborliness", Abu al-Gheit added.
An official source in the Arab League said, according to Egyptian media, "the league supports any move the Iraqi government takes on the international stage to stop the repeated Turkish military attacks on Iraqi lands and preserve the sovereignty, security and stability of Iraq".
Earlier today, Meshaal Al-Salami, President of the Arab Parliament, expressed his willingness to work with the Iraqi Parliament to mobilize regional and international support to stop the "repeated Turkish attacks" on Iraqi lands, calling on the UN Security Council to take immediate and urgent action.
The death of two Iraqi officers on Tuesday prompted Baghdad to take more stringent 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 first-of-its-kind measure that could trigger a diplomatic crisis between the two neighboring countries.
The ministry also announced that the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad would be summoned again for the third time since June, "handing him a strongly worded protest note and informing him of Iraq's confirmed rejection of his country's assaults".
