Iraq’s government on Saturday demanded that Turkey immediately withdraw additional military personnel deployed to train Iraqi Kurdish fighters near the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul . “This is considered as a grave violation to Iraq’s sovereignty and does not respect good neighborly relations between Iraq and Turkey,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. “Iraqi authorities call upon Turkey to withdraw immediately from Iraqi lands.” Iraq previously said it rejected any military operation on its soil that isn’t coordinated with the government. A spokesman for the Kurdish Regional Government said Saturday that the Turkish personnel were at Bashiqa camp on the northern outskirts of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, to train Kurdish forces known as the Peshmerga. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported Friday that about 150 soldiers and some 20 to 25 tanks had arrived in the region, stationed at military camps both near Mosul and close to the Iranian border. More than 2,500 Peshmerga including […]