Tension is high in the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, near Mosul, as Peshmerga soldiers from Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government begin an offensive to recapture it as part of a major operation to clear ISIL fighters from the country.
Turkey has at least 500 troops stationed in a camp near Bashiqa, only 15 kms away from the latest offensive, training thousands of Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers for the battle to recapture Iraq's second largest city from ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, which started on October 17.
Turkey wants to take part in the battle, but Iraq has repeatedly declined the offer and called for the withdrawal of the Turkish soldiers from Bashiqa.
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