In a statement released on Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Ministry said "The suicide attack in the Saladin province of Iraq, where most of the population is Turkmen, at the tents where condolences were received for an Iraqi which was killed two days ago, killed 8 people including the deputy head of Iraqi Turkmen Front Ali Hashim Mukhtaroglu and deputy governor of Saladin Ahmet Koca. We have learned about the incident sadly. We felt sadness about the terror attacks in Baghdad and Mosul on Monday where more than 40 people got killed."
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