Iraq called Sunday on Turkey to stop letting US and British planes carry out air patrols and raids against Iraq from the Incirlik base.
"The Ankara government must consider the interests of the Turkish people and free itself from American domination," Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told the visiting head of the Turkish business administrative council, Zine El-Abidin Ardam.
"The continued use of Incirlik base by American and British planes ... affects relations between Baghdad and Ankara and exposes Turkey to great economic and commercial losses," Ramadan said, cited by the official Iraqi News Agency.
US and British warplanes based at Incirlik patrol Iraq north of the 36th parallel to enforce no-fly zones imposed following the 1991 Gulf War with the stated goal of protecting the Kurdish population.
Baghdad does not recognize the zones and scuffles occur nearly every day between the US-British force and Iraqi air defenses -- BAGHDAD (AFP)
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