Thursday, October 31, 2013

Iraq-Turkey Ties Improve - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Iraq-Turkey Ties Improve

By: Sami Kohen Posted on October 31.

Until a couple of months ago, Turkey and Iraq were at loggerheads. A crude verbal duel was being fought between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki. The persistent tension between Ankara and Baghdad was unsettling.

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