Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while participating with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi in the signing ceremony of joint cooperation agreements between the two countries, indicated that “we have discussed ways to strengthen relations between Turkey and Iran in various fields”, explaining that “we are looking forward to increasing trade exchange.” Between Turkey and Iran up to 30 billion dollars.”

Erdogan emphasized, “We have been able to make great strides in the Turkish military industry” given that “terrorist organizations such as (PKK) are a great scourge for both Turkey and Iran”, noting that “solidarity in the fight against terrorist organizations is essential to achieving peace and stability.”

“We will discuss the Astana process and the situation in Syria with Russian and Iranian President Vladimir Putin,” he said, adding: “We will reassess the Astana process (regarding Syria) and activate it.”

Today, Tuesday, a Russian-Iranian-Turkish summit will be held in Tehran, where several issues will be discussed, the main of which is the Ukrainian war and the military operation that Ankara intends to launch in northern Syria. Tehran jumped ahead of the summit with assurances that “the leaders participating will discuss how to achieve a political solution to the region’s crises and food security issues.”