Stressing that “such actions are in violation of the Iraqi state’s sovereignty," the spokesman for the regional organization of Arab states, Mahmoud Afifi, stated on Tuesday that the aerial assaults, irrespective of the motive behind them, flout international law and the principles of good-neighborliness.
Turkey's constant disregard to the Arab stance indicated that Ankara does not care about keeping good ties with the Arab countries on the basis of respecting other states' sovereignty and rejecting interference in other states' internal affairs, Afifi stressed.
The condemnation came on the same day that Turkish defense minister said Ankara will not allow the Kurdish-populated region of Sinjar, situated over 400 kilometers northwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, to become “a new stronghold for the PKK terror group.”
“We expect the Baghdad government to cooperate with us in ending the separatist PKK terror group's presence in Iraqi territories,” Hulusi Akar told the parliament.
Akar asserted that Turkey respects the territorial integrity of Syria, Iraq and its neighbors.
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