The foreign ministers of the countries of the Arab League will meet on December 24 in an extraordinary session in Cairo to discuss the deployment of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, said Wednesday the pan-Arab organization.

Turkey had deployed there about ten days a contingent of soldiers and 150-300 twenty armored vehicles in the Bachiqa camp in northern Iraq. Turkish and Iraqi officials had reported Monday a partial withdrawal of the military.

Ankara said it was simply rushed reinforcements to protect the Turkish military advisers to train Iraqi soldiers in the fight against jihadist Islamic State Group (EI), which include monitoring the big city of Mosul. But Baghdad saw an illegal incursion.

The “extraordinary” meeting of ministers of Arab Foreign Affairs will be held on December 24 “on the request of Iraq (…), to study the deployment of Turkish military forces on its territory,” said Wednesday the journalists the Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Ben Helli.

Turkish and Iraqi officials reported Monday the withdrawal of Turkish soldiers from Bachiqa camp, but counselors are apparently remained. Ankara has similar military camps in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, also in northern Iraq. Iraq demanded on Tuesday a “complete withdrawal” of Turkish forces from its territory.