Turkey says it will pull more of its troops out of northern Iraq, following a partial withdrawal earlier this week, soon after US President Barack Obama urged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to "de-escalate tensions" with the Iraqi government.
The Turkish foreign ministry said it acknowledged a "miscommunication" with Iraq over the deployment of its forces, after Baghdad strongly objected to the deployment at the Bashiqa camp near the Islamic State held city of Mosul, where Turkey is engaged in training Kurdish peshmerga fighters.
"Turkey... acknowledges the miscommunication with the government of Iraq over the deployments of Turkish protection forces," the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.
"Turkey, in recognition of the Iraqi concerns and in accordance with the requirements of the fight against Daesh [IS], is continuing to move military forces from Nineveh province that were the source of miscommunication."
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