Iraq said on Saturday it is planning to host talks between Turkey and Syria to help normalize ties between its two neighbours after a rupture of more than a decade. Relations have soured between Ankara and Damascus after a civil war erupted in Syria in 2011. Turkey supported opposition insurgents seeking to oust incumbent Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey has since launched military operations in neighbouring Syria. On Saturday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said his country has launched an initiative to mediate between Turkey and Syria, the official Iraqi news agency INA quoted h…