Thousands of Iraqis in Baghdad, Basra protest Turkish deployment in north

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Iraqis protested on Saturday against Ankara's deployment of troops to a base near the northern city of Mosul, with some burning Turkish flags and threatening violence against the soldiers for what they see as a violation of sovereignty.
News of the deployment of 150 Turkish soldiers earlier this month triggered a crisis between Ankara and Baghdad, which has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to demand their immediate and unconditional withdrawal.
Ankara has refused, saying the troops were part of an international mission to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State, which still controls a large part of the country. Baghdad denies inviting such a force.
At least 4,000 demonstrators gathered in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on Saturday, and several thousand more in the oil city of Basra in the south, including Shi'ite militia members who held up banners reading "Death to Turkey. Death to Erdogan".
"We consider any military presence on Iraqi land as foreign aggression which we should stand against using all possible means," Hadi al-Amiri, a Shi'ite lawmaker who heads the powerful armed Badr Organisation, told protesters in Baghdad.
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The rallies were organized and led by Shi'ite militia groups, which have threatened to use force against Turkey unless it withdraws.
Pointing his pistol towards an image of Erdogan, Amjad Salim, a local commander in the Badr Organisation in Basra, said: "We are on high alert now awaiting orders from our commanders to set fire to the ground beneath the feet of Turkish soldiers."
In Baghdad, Reuters reporters saw angry protesters trample on the Turkish flag and hit a caricature of Erdogan with slippers in a mark of disrespect.
"If Turkey thinks Iraq is busy with fighting Daesh and it can seize the opportunity to deploy troops then it should think twice before making such a mistake," said Abu Muntathar al-Moussawi, a local commander in Iranian-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq paramilitary group.
"We can target Turkish soldiers and coming days will prove it."
(Additional reporting by Aref Mohammed in Basra; Writing by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Isabel Coles and Raissa Kasolowsky)

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Moscow Voices Support for Iraq Sovereignty Amid Turkish Troops' Incursion© AP Photo/ Burhan Ozbilici



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Russia's Foreign Ministry expressed support for the sovereignty of Iraq following the deployment of Turkish troops in the north of the country.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Moscow supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a phone conversation with his Iraqi counterpart in light of the presence of Turkey's troops in Iraq's north."The Iraqi minister spoke about the development of the situation surrounding the illegal deployment of a Turkish military contingent to Iraq's north and Baghdad's address to the UN Security Council on the issue," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
On December 4, Turkey deployed about 150 troops and 25 tanks to a base in the Iraqi Nineveh province, without Baghdad’s approval.
"The Russian side expressed firm support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq and actions taken by Iraqi authorities in this regard in line with international law and the UN Charter," Lavrov stressed.
Earlier on Saturday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said it had officially filed a complaint with the UN Security Council regarding Turkey’s deployment of troops to Iraq’s north, calling on the UN to ensure an immediate withdrawal of the Turkish forces from Iraq.
According to Ankara, the aim of the troops deployment in Iraq is to provide security to Turkish soldiers deployed earlier to train Kurdish militia who are fighting the Islamic State (IS, or Daesh in Arabic), a group outlawed in Russia and other countries.





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My thinking is that Iraq should give Turkey every opportunity to extricate those 150 troops and 25 tanks, and having given them ample time to do so invite the Russians in to eliminate each and every one of them. Payback time for the shooting down of the Su-24, as well as this Turkish invasion of Iraq. Erdogan is in dire need of some comeuppance.