Iraqi Foreign Ministry also summoned the Turkish ambassador to hand him “a letter of protest with strong words" and inform him of Iraq’s confirmed rejection of his country’s attacks and violations, the National cited the ministry as saying on Tuesday.

A Turkish drone strike on Tuesday in the Sidakan area in northeastern Iraq, near the Turkish and Iranian borders, killed two members of Iraq’s border guard and the driver of the vehicle they were in. Iraqi officials labeled the strike a "blatant Turkish drone attack" in the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, where Ankara has for weeks been carrying out cross border military operations against Kurdish militia.

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