ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's foreign minister says his country will continue to provide military assistance to back Iraq's fight against Islamic State militants.
At a joint news conference with visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also said Turkey would meet an Iraqi request to train its police force.
The Turkish minister said, however, that Iraq's army was in need of restructuring.
Cavusoglu said Turkey had trained more than 1,600 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters as well as more than 1,500 guards in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.
"We have always stood by Iraq and its people in the fight against Daesh and will continue to do so," Cavusoglu said, using the Arabic acronym of the ISIS group.
