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Local Forces' Support in Battle for Iraq's Mosul Crucial – Turkish FM

© AFP 2023 / SAFIN HAMEDAn Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter looks through binoculars on the top of Mount Zardak, about 25 kilometres east of Mosul, on October 6, 2016
An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter looks through binoculars on the top of Mount Zardak, about 25 kilometres east of Mosul, on October 6, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that that support of local forces would ease the fight against Daesh during ilitary operation aimed at liberation of the Iraqi city of Mosul.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Local forces' support during the imminent military operation aimed at liberation of the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh) terror group is highly important, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday.

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Cavusoglu said during a press conference with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo y Marfil that support of local forces would ease the fight against Daesh, the Daily Sabah daily reported.

The minister added that Turkey was ready to provide the US-led coalition with any necessary support.

Mosul, the second biggest Iraqi city, as well as a number of other northern and western Iraqi cities and towns was seized in 2014 during an offensive of the Daesh extremists, outlawed in Russia.

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