President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone conversation with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran.
During the conversation, matters that would improve Turkey-Iran relations and strengthen cooperation in the fight against terror were discussed, and regional matters, Azerbaijan-Armenia issue and Syria in particular, were reviewed.
In the conversation, President Erdoğan stated that they see being in close cooperation and solidarity with Iran as a requirement of neighbourly relations beyond mutual interest.
Underscoring that the attacks Armenia, which has caused a crisis with its occupation and attacks on Azerbaijani lands, is conducting against civilians constitute a war crime, President Erdoğan noted that it is important on this issue to be in a position where the right and the wrong as well as the occupied party and the occupying party are distinguished from one another.
President Erdoğan stressed that acting jointly against PKK/YPG terrorist organisation, which threatens Syria’s unity and integrity, and preserving the ceasefire in İdlib are necessary in order for the joint efforts aimed at establishing stability to yield positive result.