Roadside bomb: Turkey Consul General survives Iraq bomb attack
- 9 years ago
Originally published on September 3, 2013
The Turkish consul general in Iraq survived a roadside bomb attack on his vehicle on Monday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
The convoy had left the Consulate general building in Mosul at around 10:00 a.m. and was en route to Arbil in Northern Kurdish-controlled Iraq.
The four vehicles had travelled around 5km when the remotely detonated roadside bomb went off, damaging the vehicles.
A Turkish diplomat in Baghdad told reporters that "There were no casualties, no wounded."
It was not immediately clear whether the convoy was the target of the attack or if it was an indiscriminate attack.
According to Reuters, "The Foreign Minister has spoken to the consul general who is in good health," the spokesman said. "We are still investigating as to who carried out the attack and whether the consul general had been the target."
"Relations between Ankara and the central Baghdad government have been strained in recent years, mainly due to Turkey courting Iraqi Kurds in the autonomous north for their energy reserves, and also over their differing stances on Syria."
"Baghdad says it alone has the authority to control export of the world's fourth largest oil reserves, while the Kurds say their right to do so is enshrined in Iraq's federal constitution, drawn up following the U.S.-led invasion of 2003."
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The Turkish consul general in Iraq survived a roadside bomb attack on his vehicle on Monday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
The convoy had left the Consulate general building in Mosul at around 10:00 a.m. and was en route to Arbil in Northern Kurdish-controlled Iraq.
The four vehicles had travelled around 5km when the remotely detonated roadside bomb went off, damaging the vehicles.
A Turkish diplomat in Baghdad told reporters that "There were no casualties, no wounded."
It was not immediately clear whether the convoy was the target of the attack or if it was an indiscriminate attack.
According to Reuters, "The Foreign Minister has spoken to the consul general who is in good health," the spokesman said. "We are still investigating as to who carried out the attack and whether the consul general had been the target."
"Relations between Ankara and the central Baghdad government have been strained in recent years, mainly due to Turkey courting Iraqi Kurds in the autonomous north for their energy reserves, and also over their differing stances on Syria."
"Baghdad says it alone has the authority to control export of the world's fourth largest oil reserves, while the Kurds say their right to do so is enshrined in Iraq's federal constitution, drawn up following the U.S.-led invasion of 2003."
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