Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday that Ankara had agreed to withdraw its troops from a town near Mosul in the north of the country, state TV reported.
Abadi met his Turkish counterpart Binali Yıldırım in Baghdad. The Turkish side agreed to meet the Iraqi demand, namely, to withdraw troops from the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq, Abadi said in the follow up to the closed-door meeting in Baghdad.
Relations between Turkey and Iraq deteriorated after Turkey dispatched its troops in Iraq in late 2015 without the Iraqi government's consent.
In October, the Turkish parliament extended a mandate allowing Turkish troops to be deployed in Iraq and Syria for another year.
Following this step, the Iraqi parliament adopted a resolution voicing protest against Turkish military presence in the Bashiqa camp, located about 19 miles northeast of Mosul. The lawmakers call on the government to take necessary legal and diplomatic measures, including a review of the economic relations between the two countries. Ankara has condemned the resolution.
