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Turkey on Thursday summoned Baghdad’s top envoy to defend its decision to launch a military campaign against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. Iraq’s charge d’affaires was called in a day after officials in Baghdad denied Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s claim that they backed the offensive. Turkey launched its third campaign in northern Iraq since 2020 on Sunday, using special forces and combat drones to attack fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and its Western allies. Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey…