The factions back down from "expelling the Turkish forces" in exchange for one month of water releas

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[size=52]The factions back down from "expelling the Turkish forces" in exchange for one month of water releases[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani offers his "gratitude" to Turkey, which he has been visiting for two days, while the resistance factions that threatened Turkey 6 months ago remain silent.[/size]
[size=45]The voices of "expelling Turkey" from the cities of northern Iraq and "closing companies" are receding, compared to one month promised by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of water releases.[/size]
[size=45]Since the "frame" government took power last October, Turkey has bombed Kurdistan more than 5 times, the last of which was less than a week ago.[/size]
[size=45]So far, Ankara has about 30 military centers in the north of the country, and the number of Turkish fighters stationed within the Iraqi borders on a permanent basis is twice that of the American "advisory" forces present in Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Informed political sources described, in an interview with (Al-Mada), the Sudanese negotiations in Turkey as “courtesy” and “not achieving radical solutions” at the expense of the country's sovereignty and the water crisis, in return for the continuation of Turkish exports.[/size]
[size=45]Turkey's exports to Iraq are estimated at about $16 billion annually, and it is the fourth largest importer from Ankara, according to Turkish data.[/size]
[size=45]Sources close to the coordination framework circles said: "Until now, the prime minister has not talked about expelling or scheduling the withdrawal of the Turkish forces, or a map to close the military barracks."[/size]
[size=45]According to the sources, "there are more than 7,000 Turkish soldiers and officers penetrating 100 km deep into Iraqi territory, and they have 11 military bases and 19 camps in Iraq," while the number of "non-combat" American forces in Iraq is 2,500.[/size]
[size=45]On the first day of his arrival in Ankara, last Tuesday, and his meeting with President Erdogan, Al-Sudani said that he was "grateful on behalf of the Iraqi people."[/size]
[size=45]The prime minister's words came after the Turkish president announced in a joint press conference between the two parties, "Increasing the amount of water flowing into the Tigris River for a month, as much as possible, to alleviate the plight of Iraq."[/size]
[size=45]The Turkish president added, "The water problem will be solved... We are aware of Iraq's urgent needs for water," pointing out that Turkey itself is witnessing the lowest rates of precipitation in more than 6 decades.[/size]
[size=45]It seems that Ankara is trying to replace the "month of water" with Baghdad declaring the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a terrorist organization.[/size]
[size=45]Erdogan said at the same conference: "We expect our Iraqi brothers to classify the PKK as a terrorist organization and rid their lands of this bloody terrorist organization."[/size]
[size=45]In turn, Al-Sudani refused "to use his lands to attack neighboring countries, or any infringement on Iraqi sovereignty," according to what the official agency quoted him.[/size]
[size=45]Iraq's share of water has declined by about 70% due to the policies of neighboring countries, including Turkey, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.[/size]
[size=45]The water file, in addition to the Turkish ground operations and the bombing of the villages of Kurdistan under the pretext of pursuing the PKK, prompted factions to threaten Ankara before the Shiite alliance took power.[/size]
[size=45]Water vs pt[/size]
[size=45]In an interview with (Al-Mada), Ihsan Al-Shammari, head of the Center for Political Thinking, excludes: "Iraq's approval of Turkey's request to consider the PKK a terrorist organization."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Shammari says, "This decision needs political arrangements at home because of the entangled relations of the Workers' Party with Kurdish forces and some factions."[/size]
[size=45]Ankara has been pursuing the Workers' Party in Iraq since the eighties of the last century, before it mysteriously entered the country in 2015 and set up a camp near Mosul, and then expanded after that.[/size]
[size=45]According to sources in Sinjar, one of the Labor Party's strongholds, some of the PKK militants belong to the grassy crowd and receive salaries.[/size]
[size=45]These sources had previously revealed to (Al-Mada) that factions close to Iran support the survival of Sinjar in the hands of the Labor Party to put pressure on Erbil, Baghdad and the United States.[/size]
[size=45]Three weeks ago, Turkey had killed, with a drone, one of the leaders of the "Yipshah" in Sinjar, an armed group formed by the Workers' Party and affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces.[/size]
[size=45]Faction silence[/size]
[size=45]This is the sixth targeting since the Coordination Framework took control of the government more than 4 months ago, and the Shiite coalition's voices on expelling Turkish forces and boycotting Turkish companies have receded.[/size]
[size=45]Last August, Abu Ali al-Askari, a spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah, said in a tweet on Twitter that "the aggressor Turkish forces must be removed in two stages: the first is from the advanced bases, and the second is by clearing the border areas of their mercenaries ... and the resistance and its comrades are capable of that."[/size]
[size=45]A month earlier, the Secretary-General of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Qais al-Khazali, called for the immediate removal of Turkish forces from Iraq by a decision of the Iraqi parliament, indicating that the resistance factions would implement that decision.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Khazali's words came after his visit to the family of one of the victims of the Turkish bombing in a summer resort in Zakho, which left 30 dead and wounded last July.[/size]
[size=45]In the same month, the head of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Secretary-General of the Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri, confirmed in a statement that Turkey had "extended" in its aggression through its air raids, artillery shelling, and ground incursions of its forces deep into Iraqi territory.[/size]
[size=45]At the time, Al-Amiri called on the government to "close the borders and stop the work of Turkish companies in Iraq."[/size]
[size=45]Former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, during the repercussions of the Turkish bombing of the summer resort, previously described it as “downtrodden” to the Turks, and that he neglected negotiating papers to remove the Turkish forces and release the water.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Kazemi had previously visited Turkey in late 2020, and at that time criticized the Shiite coalition before winning the 2021 elections, the former prime minister because of his talk about his friendship with Erdogan.[/size]
[size=45]During Al-Kazemi's era, Turkey had repeatedly asked Baghdad to expel the PKK, but Ihsan Al-Shammari says, "This request is related to the Turkish interior, and now it is more urgent because of the approaching presidential elections in Turkey."[/size]
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