Turkey and Iran seek to strengthen ties
Turkey-Iran, Politics, 7/31/2004

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stressed Turkey's keenness to strengthen political, economic and commercial relations with neighboring countries as soon as possible.

In a statement Friday upon returning from a three-day visit to Tehran, Erdogan said " Boosting relations with neighbouring countries support peace in the region." Earlier, in a joint press conference in Tehran with Iran's First Vice-President Mohammad-Reza Aref, Erdogan said that Turkish-Iranian relations have been developed in political, economic, and cultural areas during the recent years.

For his part, Aref underlined that Iran and Turkey have a very close stances on key regional and international issues including the crises in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and the necessity of combating terrorism.

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