A recently emerged video with the watermark of Iraq's defense ministry shows Iraq's former Defense Minister Khaled al-Obaidi visiting Bashiqa camp and moralizing the soldiers trained by the Turkish military.

The Iraqi parliament decided last week to remove Bashiqa camp where the Turkish military is training local Iraqi forces, claiming the camp was made without Iraq's consent and that it was a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

In the emerged video, Obaidi addresses soldiers in the Bashiqa camp and says "Iraqi forces take full responsibility for you, and we will never leave your side."

"In fact," he says, "our prime minister has sent me exclusively to see the situation in the camp."

Obaidi also says that he sees hope in the soldiers trained by the Turkish military, and tells them to be prepared physically and psychologically for the operation to liberate Mosul from the Daish terror organization.

The presence of Turkish forces in Bashiqa, located about 30 kilometers northeast of Mosul, had led to a diplomatic spat between Turkey and Iraq, with Turkey saying that Iraqi authorities had been notified of the deployment and approved it, visiting the camp numerous times.

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