Baghdad on Thursday summoned ambassadors from Turkey and Iran over their countries' separate military operations this week targeting Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, calling the attacks an affront to Iraq's sovereignty.
In an airborne-and-land operation dubbed "Operation Claw-Tiger," Turkey airlifted troops into northern Iraq on Wednesday to root out the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which it says maintains bases across the border in Iraq.
Turkey regularly carries out air and ground attacks against the PKK in northern Iraq, and has defended these operations saying that neither the Iraqi government nor the regional Iraqi Kurdish administration have taken measures to remove PKK insurgents.