Washington’s stonewalling in the strategic agreement between Iraq and Türkiye

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, citing the news site Al Jazeera, “Saleha Allam”, a writer and researcher of Turkish issues, revealed in a note that the US is stonewalling the strategic agreement between Iraq and Turkey. After returning from America, the Iraqi minister was the host of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During this trip, 26 agreements were signed in various political, economic, social and tourist fields. Five of the 26 agreements signed include strategic relations, cooperation on military issues, security, fighting terrorism and the production of military equipment.

Discussions between Turkey and the United States

In the recent negotiations with Turkish security and diplomatic authorities, the United States proposed direct and indirect confrontation with joint terrorist groups (ISIS and PKK). This proposal was strongly opposed by Turkey.

Ankara has announced that it does not accept cooperation with a terrorist organization to fight another terrorist organization or case-by-case cooperation of allied countries with terrorist organizations. The strong conflict between Ankara and the PKK, which has been waging a fierce war against Turkey from its camps in Syria and Iraq for years, has made Ankara not accept America’s arguments.

security agreements and The military of Iraq and Turkey has aroused the concern of various Kurdish groups, including the PKK terrorist group and the People’s Defense Units (YPG), and has caused the United States to come to the field to prevent a serious confrontation with these groups. Nevertheless, America is worried about the possible consequences of military and security cooperation between Baghdad and Ankara, which can end the presence of YPG and PKK on the borders of Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

In February of last year, Defense Minister Yashar Güler and Turkish Army Chief of Staff Metin Gorak succeeded in obtaining the consent of Iraqi officials regarding the banning of PKK activities in the borders of Iraq. They became Iraq. For this reason, the relations between Iraq and Turkey improved from a security and military point of view.

According to the Turkish media, according to the agreement of the two countries, military operations led by Turkish military forces will soon be carried out in depth 30 to 40 kilometers of Iraqi territory will be launched against the terrorist forces against the Turkish government; This issue has brought strong opposition from the Americans.

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In this regard, Ankara has recently started a new initiative, which is to resolve the terrorism case without Washington’s intervention. The two-sided and ambiguous policy of the United States against terrorist groups in recent years has motivated Turkey to ignore the United States and convince Baghdad to cooperate in this field. It seems that these developments will be the beginning of important changes in the policies of Iraq, Syria and Turkey towards Kurdish groups active in these three countries.

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