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Setting up a military base near Mosul with neither permission nor approval from the central government in Baghdad, Ankara has been given an ultimatum: “Withdraw your soldiers within 48 hours!” Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has written Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi a letter underscoring Ankara’s commitment to and recognition of Iraq’s land unity and its sovereignty. But clearly, the letter really hasn’t helped. Baghdad has reiterated the timeframe it has given Turkey to withdraw its troops and has made it clear that it is not going to soften on this front.
the Iraqi government is now convinced that activities outside the category of “training” are going on in Bashika which is a christian Town. Of course, another major reason for the angry reactions from the central Iraqi government is that there has been no attempt to coordinate these developments with it; this is why it has cut off monthly payments to its own paramilitary forces being trained at the Bashika camp. To wit, there is no agreement or contract with the Baghdad government as to any of this.
It should also be noted that the paramilitary forces organized and put together by Nujaifi have, to date, not participated in any military action against the local ISIL presence. Thus, it seems likely that the determination to maintain a military training camp — a camp whose plug has been pulled by the Baghdad government and whose presence is clearly opposed by the state — is kept alive with other intentions.