The Turkish military will join the Mosul Operation to liberate the city from the Daesh terrorist organization, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday.
During his opening speech at the 9th Eurasian Islamic Council in Istanbul, the Turkish president slammed Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for his recent comment targeting Erdoğan personally.
'You're not in my quality'
“The Iraqi prime minister is insulting me, first know your limits. You are not my collocutor. Even you are not in my quality, my level," Erdoğan said.
The dispute between Ankara and Baghdad increased in recent days before the Mosul operation when the Iraq administration accused Turkey's military presence in Bashiqa military camp near Mosul as being illegal.