BAGHDAD — As Turkey continues to thumb its nose at Iraq, thousands of Iraqi Sadrist protesters surrounded the Turkish Embassy on Oct. 18 in Baghdad and demanded that Ankara remove its troops from the Bashiqa base near Mosul. Meanwhile, Iraq's parliament is mulling the effectiveness of a potential economic boycott against Turkey.
Parliament member Ali Abd al-Salman told the media Oct. 12 that an economic boycott is necessary "to force Turkey to withdraw its troops.”