Ankara (AFP) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi didn’t attend the summit in Ankara on Tuesday, which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had introduced to reporters however which Tehran itself didn’t formally acknowledge.
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The confusion over Raisi’s go to highlights the tensions that stay between the 2 regional powers, regardless of a shared view on the Israel-Hamas struggle.
The Turkish presidential palace advised AFP that Erdogan had no talks scheduled for Tuesday and didn’t clarify whether or not the go to was canceled or postponed.
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim information company reported that Raisi’s go to to Turkey had been “postponed.”
The cause and different particulars haven’t been disclosed.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan personally introduced on his flight again from a regional summit in Riyadh on November 11, which Raisi additionally attended, that this could be the primary official go to by an Iranian president to Turkey.
“Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will come to go to us on the twenty eighth of this month,” Erdogan advised reporters on the aircraft.
The go to was additionally introduced in Turkish state media and broadly mentioned on tv by Monday.
However, Raisi’s workplace and Iranian official media didn’t formally affirm this.
The two presidents and high diplomats from every nation held a phone dialog over the weekend specializing in the Gaza struggle.
After the phone dialog, Iran’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged that Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian expressed his “hope that by persevering with high-level diplomacy between the 2 nations, the 2 sides will have the ability to strengthen and deepen mutual cooperation.” Ta.
Complex relationship
President Erdogan has emerged as one of many Islamic world’s most outspoken critics of Israel’s assault on Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas militants.
He branded Israel a “terrorist state” and known as Iran-backed Hamas a “liberation group.”
But analysts consider Iran desires Turkey to maneuver previous this rhetoric and sever its creating commerce and power ties with Israel.
“Iran expects Turkey to droop direct and oblique commerce with Israel,” Hakki Uyghur, director of the Center for Iranian Studies in Istanbul, advised AFP.
“On the opposite hand, Turkey has taken a stance of contemplating the separation of political and business points.”
The Hamas-led Gaza authorities says practically 15,000 folks have been killed, most of them civilians and 1000’s of kids, since Israel started retaliation for Hamas’ unprecedented cross-border assaults. Israel has introduced that 1,200 folks have been killed.
Iran and Turkey share a 535-kilometre (330-mile) border and have a checkered historical past of shut financial ties and opposing views on regional conflicts.
Turkey supported Iranian and Russian-backed insurgent efforts to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad throughout Syria’s civil struggle.
Ankara’s help for Azerbaijan, which gained two wars in opposition to Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh, additionally brought about deep nervousness in Iran.
The Iranian authorities fears that the resurgence of Baku within the Caucasus area may gasoline the separatist aspirations of Iran’s massive Azerbaijani minority.
Iran can also be involved a few proposed commerce route alongside the northern border between Azerbaijan and Turkey, which may complicate entry to Armenia.
“The most necessary battle between Turkey and Iran was over the Caucasus and Karabakh,” mentioned Arif Keskin, an Ankara-based Iran skilled.
“The Gaza battle has put this situation on the again burner, but it surely stays an necessary situation,” Keskin advised AFP.
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