Baghdad: U.S. President’s envoy, Tom Barrack, affirmed today, Thursday, that Ankara’s return of the Zilkan base to Baghdad under an agreed mechanism and timeline represents a turning point that serves both Iraq’s sovereignty and Turkey’s security.

According to Iraqi News Agency, Barrack said in a post on the X platform, monitored by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that ‘History rarely announces its turning points; it stitches them quietly. Ankara returning Zilkan to Baghdad by agreed mechanism and timeline is one such thread: Iraqi sovereignty and Turkish security, both served.’

He added: ‘What looks like chaos from afar is a region weaving its own order.’