Turkey’s diplomatic drive in Iraq has continued, the Turkish prime minister meeting the leader of Iraq’s Kurdish region, on the second day of his visit to the country.<br /><br /> Binali Yildirim held talks with Iraqi Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani in the Kurdistan capital Erbil on Sunday.<br /><br /> There has been confusion over what emerged from his trip to Baghdad on Saturday. <br /><br /> Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said agreement had been reached over an Iraqi demand for the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Bashiqa near Mosul – although a joint communique made no reference to it.<br /><br /> Iraq and Turkey have been at odds over the continued presence of Turkish forces in northern Iraq.<br /><br /> Turkey has several military bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and keeps hundreds of troops there, battling ISIL militants.<br /><br /> Baghdad objects to their presence at the Bashiqa camp where soldiers trained Sunni Muslim and allied Kurdish Peshmerga units ahead of the Iraqi government’s offensive to oust ISIL from Mosul.<br />
