Iraqi FM expects continuity in ties with Turkey, no matter who wins election
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said he does not expect the outcome of the Turkish election to affect Iraq-Turkey ties.
“Turkey has been a strategic and vital partner for Iraq in all realms — politics, economics and security — and we hope and expect this will continue no matter the outcome of the election,” said Hussein in an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Turks will cast their votes Sunday in a seemingly too-close-to-call contest between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
Hussein deferred when asked if Iraq had a preference in the Turkish election, saying “that’s an internal Turkish matter.”
