“We plan to increase bilateral trade turnover to $ 30 billion”, he said, adding that Iran is an important strategic partner for Turkey.
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Turkey wants to buy more natural gas from Iran and has discussed pricing issues, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday, adding that Ankara and Tehran should resolve a dispute on gas prices without arbitration.
“The two countries have a common opinion and goal to jointly fight terrorism, extremism and sectarianism, and despite the existence of different views on some issues, we share a common stance on [protecting] Syria’s territorial integrity” and fighting Daesh and Jabhat Fath al-Sham terrorists, Zarif said.
Three military attaches have also gone on the run, including two who fled from Greece to Italy, and another who fled Bosnia, the minister said, without specifying where the third attache had gone.
At a joint news conference, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his country’s support to Turkey over last month’s failed coup attempt by renegade officers within the military that left more than 270 people dead.
A US -based Muslim cleric accused by Ankara of masterminding last month’s failed coup said on Friday he would only hand himself over to Turkish authorities if an independent global investigative body first found him guilty.
“Iran always had good relations with both Turkey and Russian Federation”.
Zarif also said that Iran was “ready to work and cooperate” with Turkey and Russian Federation on the issue of Syria, adding it it welcomed “the new cooperation that has started” between Moscow and Ankara. “We have an extradition agreement”, he said.
“The whole world knows who is behind the coup attempt”.
Erdogan says the armed forces have been infiltrated in recent years by Gulen’s supporters.
However, the coup attempt was suppressed as people turned out on the streets to support the incumbent government.
Despite the purge of the military, including almost half of the country’s generals, Defence Minister Fikri Isik said on Friday that Turkey’s role in the US-led coalition against Islamic State would continue without interruption.
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Washington is “very concerned about the increasing number of allegations of chemical weapons use over the last few weeks”, Trudeau said.
