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Mosul: Turkey insists its forces 'cannot remain idle'
Source: BBC
Turkey has insisted that its forces cannot remain idle during the fight to drive so-called Islamic State militants from the Iraqi city of Mosul.
PM Binali Yildirim said it might be necessary to take action because Iraq and the US had not kept their promises.
He said both countries had allowed Shia militias and Kurdish separatists to take part in the operation.
Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi on Saturday told the US that there was no need for Turkish forces as yet.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-37742805?ocid=socialflow_twitter