Turkish foreign minister says to tell Iraqi Kurdish officials independence vote wrong

FILE PHOTO - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during a news conference after an extraordinary meeting of the OIC Executive Committee in Istanbul, Turkey, August 1, 2017. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday he would tell Iraqi Kurdish officials later in the day that their decision to hold an independence referendum was wrong and that Ankara expects it to cancel the vote.

Cavusoglu was speaking at a news conference in Baghdad with his Iraqi counterpart before travelling to Erbil in northern Iraq to meet Kurdish officials later on Wednesday.