“The issuance of an arrest warrant from a Turkish court changes nothing about my status or my views”, Gulen said. It was reopened to U.S. flights shortly afterwards but Turkey has scaled down its own involvement in recent weeks.
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Earlier, Zarif and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks about key bilateral, regional and worldwide issues.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member Turkey was long criticised by its Western partners for not playing a full role in the fight against IS but upped its involvement a year ago by offering U.S. forces use of its Incirlik air base for raids against the group.
Iran was the first country to condemn the failed putsch in Turkey. Turkey claimed it warned the aircraft before firing on it, while Putin vehemently denied the Su-24 ever breached Turkish airspace.
As surprising but inevitable the turn of events, Russian Federation and Turkey are now friends.
Analysts have speculated Moscow and Tehran may be looking for more harmony with Turkey on Syria following Erdogan’s trip to Russian Federation.
“And now they are moving towards co-operation on the issues of a region, which is important to all these three countries (Iran, Turkey and Syria)”, said Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister.
“We are ready to facilitate the connections of electricity, natural gas and energy lines to Turkey and Europe”, Zarif said.
Zarif, highlighting the Syria issue, said Iran “has always had positive dialogues with Turkey on the Syria subject”.
“It is a victory to Turkish people, and we pay much importance to the support of the Nigerian government to Turkish people and the Turkish government struggle of democracy”, he said. “We have an extradition agreement”, he said. He was delivered to regional security department, which combats terrorism.
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For his part, President Rouhani noted he has no doubt that together with the terrorists, there are also “some superpowers” trying to destabilize things. “We have emphasised from the outset the importance of the constructive role Iran plays for the a permanent solution in Syria”, he added.
