12月10日，土耳其总统埃尔多安在一次新闻发布会上指出，“根据自由斗士受训人数的多少，［土耳其］士兵的人数会有增减”。第二天，12月11日阿巴迪总理发表声明，他已指示伊拉克外交部“就土耳其入侵”向安全理事会“提出正式控诉”。同一天，秘书处收到伊拉克外长易卜拉欣·贾法里先生2015年12月11日的信，要求安全理事会“命令土耳其立即撤出其军队，并以一切可用手段确保这些部队立即无条件地撤到国际公认的两国边界”。
On 10 December, Turkish President Erdogan stated at a news conference that “the number of [Turkish] soldiers might increase or decrease depending on the number of Peshmerga being trained”. The following day, on 11 December, Prime Minister Al Abadi issued a statement that he had instructed the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs “to submit a formal complaint... on the Turkish incursion” to the Security Council. On the same day, the Secretariat received a letter from the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Mr. Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, dated 11 December 2015, calling on the Security Council “to order Turkey to withdraw its forces immediately and to ensure, by all available means, that those forces retreat immediately and unconditionally to the internationally recognized border of the two countries”.