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Iraq cleric attends Turkey talks

Source: BBC
Ankara : Turkey | 6 months ago  
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Officials said he met both Turkey's president and the prime minister. The powerful cleric had fiercely opposed the foreign presence in Iraq and his Mehdi army fought troops until he suspended the movement last year. He last spoke in public at a mosque in Iraq in June 2007 and has since issued statements...
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