Iran, Turkey underline boosting mutual cooperation

During the meeting, Iranian president lauded the developments made in two countries' relations and stressed promotion of annual trade exchanges between the two states to the targeted goal of $30 billion.

President Rouhani also called for the improvement of banking relations between Iran and Turkey, and said that bilateral and trilateral relations between Tehran, Ankara and Moscow can help establish peace and stability in the region.

President Rouhani congratulated the coming of the holy month of Ramadan to his Turkish counterpart and wished health for Erdogan and prosperity for the Turkish nation.

During the meeting, the Turkish president, for his part, congratulated his Iranian counterpart on his re-election, adding that Ankara is committed to reinforce all-out ties with Tehran.

Iran-Turkey relations are promotional and Ankara attaches importance to improvement of ties with Tehran, he noted.

There are no obstacles on the way of elevation of Iran-Turkey relations and realization of $30 billion trade target, Erdogan said.

The Turkish president noted, “We showed our commitment to boost ties in the previous Iran-Turkey Supreme Council on Strategic Cooperation.”

Erdogan pointed to the regional cooperation between Iran and Turkey, and said that the two countries’ cooperation in Syria talks held in Astana can help establish peace in the region.

“We can speed up Astana talks for resolution of the Syrian crisis with the participation of Russia and other countries,” he added.

The Iranian and Turkish presidents also called for holding Iran-Turkey Supreme Council on Strategic Cooperation in the near future. 

Presidential and city and village councils elections were held in Iran on May 19. President Hassan Rouhani won a landslide victory by garnering over 23.4 million votes (57 percent of more than 41 million cast ballots) and became president for another four-year term.