The Interim Arab Parliament said Sunday that dialogue and diplomacy is the only way to settle the escalating tensions along the Turkish-Iraqi borders, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
In a statement issued Sunday, the Parliament voiced its deep concern over the situation on the Turkish-Iraqi borders, calling on all sides to remain self-restraint, said the report.
Earlier on Friday, talks with Iraq aimed at averting a Turkish cross-border incursion collapsed after Ankara qualified Iraqi proposals to solve the border crisis as insufficient.
Turkey has massed up to 100,000 troops along the mountainous border with Iraq in preparation for the cross-border operation, which was approved by the Turkish parliament earlier this month, to crack down the 3,000 strong rebels of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) hidden in northern Iraq.
Source: Xinhua
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