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 him as saying in the United States.
Hussein added that he had conferred with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Washington to arrange for a meeting in the Iraqi capital Baghdad with Syrian officials. "There are also continued contacts with the Syrian side," he added.
The date of the talks will be set later, he said.
In a sign of rapprochement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has recently said his country could extend an invitation to al-Assad "at any moment" to discuss restoration of ties.
"We want peace in Syria and we expect everyone who supports peace to support this historic call," Erdoğan said earlier this week on his return flight from the US where he attended a NATO summit.
He did not mention Iraq or any other country for a possible meeting with al-Assad.
There are about 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, which recently saw riots targeting their businesses amid an increasingly hostile mood towards them.