(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Ankara August 12 (QNA) - Turkey welcomed the naming of Haider al-Abadi as Iraq's new prime minister-delegate Tuesday and called on Iraq's political leaders to back his efforts to form a new government. "It is a positive and important development for the Iraqi President Fouad Masoum to mandate Haider al-Abadi as prime minister ... We wish him success in his post" the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement.(QNA)