Turkey and Iraq agree Turkey will turn over military camp in northern Iraq

Turkey and Iraq agreed on Wednesday for Turkish forces to hand over a military camp in northern Iraq to the Iraqi government gradually, they said after

talks in New York, adding they also agreed to end the presence of "outlawed armed elements" in northern Iraq.



After Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the sides said in a joint statement they had agreed to deepen security cooperation.



"Within this framework, they reached an agreement on fully establishing state authority in Sinjar and ending the presence of outlawed foreign armed elements," they said, referring to Kurdish militants, some of whom are based in the mountainous Sinjar area of northern Iraq.



Turkey is continuing a peace process that it hopes will result in the disarmament of those militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and end a decades-old conflict.