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The Iranian president has arrived Ibrahim Raisi To the Turkish capital, Ankara, to meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan And attending the eighth meeting of the high-level cooperation council between the two countries.
Erdogan received Raisi at the presidential complex in the capital, Ankara, and the two parties are expected to sign a number of agreements and hold a joint press conference.
The official Iranian “IRNA” agency reported that Raisi heads a “high-level political and economic delegation” on his first official visit to Turkey since his election in 2021.
The Iranian President’s visit to Ankara comes at a time when the war on Gaza has begun to inflame tensions and escalate fighting in the region.
Contain the conflict
This is in addition to the existing tensions between the two regional powers in Syria, as they supported two opposing camps in the civil war in the country, and in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the region. Nagorni Karabakh.
Iran’s concern increased with Turkey supplying Azerbaijan with weapons to help it defeat Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, and again last year.
“Relations between Turkey and Iran have always been complex and multidimensional,” Hakki Uygur, director of the Istanbul Center for Iranian Studies, told Agence France-Presse.
He added, “Turkey is capable of managing it and finding a compromise one way or another. I think something similar will happen now.”
Iran and Turkey share a border extending over 535 kilometers, and are linked by a long history of close economic relations and diplomatic disputes.
