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Iraq Shiite chief sees no change in Turkey stance on IS
by Staff Writers
Baghdad (AFP) July 27, 2015


Turkey has not asked for NATO military help: chief
Oslo (AFP) July 27, 2015 - Turkey has not asked for substantial military help from NATO in its campaign against the Islamic State group and Kurdish militants, the alliance's chief said ahead of a emergency meeting to discuss the fighting.

Jens Stoltenberg also warned Turkey that its bombing campaign could endanger the progress that has been made in recent years towards reaching a peace deal with Kurdish militants.

NATO ambassadors are due to meet on Tuesday at Ankara's request to discuss the spike of violence between Turkey, Islamic State jihadists and Kurdish militants.

"Turkey has a very strong army and very strong security forces. So there has been no request for any substantial NATO military support," Stoltenberg said in an interview with the BBC on Sunday.

Turkey bombed IS positions in Syria for the first time last week after a suicide bombing blamed on the jihadists killed 32 people on the border with the war-torn nation.

It has also bombed positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq for the first time in four years, after the militants, who accuse Ankara of colluding with the Islamists, claimed the killing of two police officers.

While applauding Ankara for joining the fight against the IS, the NATO chief cautioned that "self-defence has to be proportionate".

And in an interview with Norwegian television late Sunday, he warned that Turkey's strikes on Kurdish militants risked undermining years of tortuous peace talks.

"For years there has been progress to try to find a peaceful political solution. It is important not to renounce that... because force will never solve the conflict in the long term."

Turkey regards the PKK, which has waged a deadly insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984, as a terror group and the main Syrian Kurdish group fighting IS -- the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- as the PKK's Syrian branch.

Hadi al-Ameri, a top leader of Iraq's powerful Shiite paramilitaries, argued Monday there was no evidence Turkey had changed its position on the Islamic State jihadist group.

"I think (the strikes) Turkey carried out were to support to Daesh (IS) and not what some had imagined," said Ameri, a top leader of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) force.

Ameri was speaking after a meeting in Baghdad between Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.

A senior US official said Monday that Washington and Ankara had agreed to work together to create an IS-free zone along Turkey's border with northern Syria.

But as Turkey launched its first air strikes against IS on Friday, it also struck multiple positions held by Kurdish groups spearheading the fight against the jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

A military commitment against IS by Turkey, which has long been accused of covertly supporting the jihadists, is seen as a potential game-changer in the war against IS.

Ameri, whose Hashed forces have also been a key component of the anti-IS war in Iraq, said the raids against the PKK Turkish Kurdish rebels in Iraq showed there was no U-turn from Ankara.

"Turkey has not changed its stance; it carried out operations against the PKK, which is fighting with the Kurds against Daesh in Syria," he said.

"Turkey still supports IS right now," he said.

Before his meetings in Baghdad, Zarif travelled to the holy city of Najaf to brief Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani -- the most revered Shiite cleric in Iraq -- on the nuclear deal Iran sealed with Western powers earlier this month.

Zarif has been on a tour of the region, including Kuwait and Qatar, aimed at easing concern among Gulf nations over the nuclear deal, which should see a gradual easing of crippling economic sanctions on Tehran.


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