Iraq is not Turkish cop -- spokesman

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq's role in the joint security committee with Turkey and the U.S. is finding the appropriate mechanism to deal with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a spokesman of the Iraqi government said, underlining that Iraq does not work as a policeman for the Turkish government.

"The intelligence cooperation between the three countries still underway," Ali al-Dabbagh told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, considering such cooperation as not enough.

This is the first official comment from the Iraqi side on the Turkish government, which considered the intelligence information provided by the Iraqi and American sides on the PKK movements as not enough.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had called on the U.S. to help Turkey in its war against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) by providing the Turkish military with than just "intelligence sharing."

Erdogan made his remarks early Monday during a press conference in Toronto, where he attended the G-20 summit over the weekend and met separately with U.S. President Barack Obama.

According to the Turkish leader, an anti-terror mechanism set up between Turkey, Iraq and the United States should include functions other than "intelligence sharing." Erdogan said he discussed this issue in talks with Obama.
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