The commander of the Iraqi border guards, Lieutenant General Hamid Al-Husseini, described Turkey’s actions on the border as “suspicious”, stressing the need for “the transfer of military reinforcements to stop any violations”, noting that “Turkish forces are opening roads and airborne assaults inside the territories.” The Iraqi forces who need to deal with the same movements and the Turkish bombing will not stop at the borders and 200 km away before the summer resort incident, and this is still going on in other areas.”
He pointed out that “the clashes between the Turkish army and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) continue”, explaining that “the severity of the situation on the Iraqi-Turkish border can only be described by those who get to it.”
Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah stated that Turkish forces are recruiting and increasing in areas of northern Iraq, pointing to the need to send federal forces, and explained that “There is a case of increasing and invading Turkish forces and occupying many areas and increasing the number of points.” Reach one hundred points inside Iraqi territory and several distances from the Zakho and Amadia districts in Dahuk, and we emphasize the need to send the army and Peshmerga forces to these areas and capture empty border guard sites in order to force the Turkish forces to leave their positions and bring them under the control of our forces .
Source: El Nashra