Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday an agreement had been reached with Turkey over an Iraqi demand that Turkish forces withdraw from the Bashiqa camp near Mosul in the north of the country, Iraqi state TV reported.
However, a joint communique issued after Abadi met his Turkish counterpart Binali Yıldırım in Baghdad did not refer to any such deal, but said both sides stressed that Bashiqa was an Iraqi camp.
At a news conference with Abadi, Turkish Prime Minister Yıldırım said: "We discussed the issue of Bashiqa."
"We see that significant progress is being made in cleansing Daesh from the region. In line with this, we will solve this (Bashiqa) subject somehow in a friendly way."
