Cavusoglu held a phone call with Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, and KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani.

Cavusoglu underscored Turkey's support for Iraq and the region, saying it has always stood by the Iraqi people and always will. Bilateral relations were also discussed, Daily Sabah reported.

The phone call between Cavusoglu and Barzanis came amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran since the killing of an American contractor late last month at a U.S. base in Iraq.

The U.S. later hit on the Iran-backed militia it said was responsible for the attack.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was then attacked on December 31 by a group of enraged militiamen and demonstrators.

Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) elite Quds Force, was later assassinated in a U.S. drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport early last Friday along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the senior commander of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi force, and eight others.

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