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Turkey to hand over military base in northern Iraq to Baghdad

France 24 [en] · middle east

Turkey will gradually hand over control of its Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq to Baghdad, Ankara and Baghdad said Wednesday, in a move aimed at strengthening Iraqi state authority and easing a long-running source of tension between the neighbours.

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