Iraq asks U.N. council to demand Turkey troops withdraw immediately
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Iraq appealed to the United Nations Security Council on Friday to demand that Turkey immediately and unconditionally remove its troops from northern Iraq, calling the Turkish military incursion a "flagrant violation" of international law.
"We call on the Security Council to demand that Turkey withdraw its forces immediately ... and not to violate Iraqi sovereignty again," Iraqi Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said in a letter to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, president of the Security Council this month.
"This is considered a flagrant violation of the principles of the U.N. Charter, and a violation of Iraqi territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state of Iraq," the letter said, according to an unofficial translation of the Arabic original.
