Turkey Iran

Iran war pushes Israel-Turkey rift into more dangerous phase - analysis

Competing claims over deterrence, restraint, and regional credibility are turning an already damaged relationship into a sharper strategic confrontation.

|ByGIORGIA VALENTE/THE MEDIA LINE
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends an interview with Reuters, in Brussels, Belgium April 4, 2025.

Turkey's foreign minister says Israel still seeking opportunity to attack Iran

"I hope they find a different path, but the reality is that Israel, in particular, is looking for an opportunity to strike Iran," Fidan said in a televised interview on Friday.

|ByREUTERS, AMICHAI STEIN
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reacts during a press conference at a NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025.

Turkey opposes foreign intervention in Iran, Erdogan tells Iran's Pezeshkian

In a statement, the Turkish presidency said the leader had discussed the latest developments in Iran, after the worst domestic unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

|ByREUTERS, DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Fighters from the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, are pictured near the border with Iran in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, in the outskirts of Sulaimaniya, Iraq, June 21, 2025.

Armed Kurdish groups sought to cross into Iran from Iraq, sources say

Turkey, which deems Kurdish militants in northern Iraq terrorists, has warned in recent days that any foreign intervention in Iran would escalate regional crises.

|ByREUTERS

Turkey pulls out of Munich defense conference because of Israel

The Munich Security Conference is an annual event that brings together some of the world's top policy makers in foreign and defense policy.

FEBRUARY 6, 2015ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, REUTERS
A passenger ship, with the old city's monuments Blue mosque (L) and Hagia Sophia museum (R) in the background, sets sail in the Bosphorus in Istanbul

Rouhani: Iran will make tackling extremism, terrorism a chief objective

On visit to Turkey, Iranian president vows to work with Turkey "to establish stability in the region."

JUNE 9, 2014ByREUTERS
Rouhani and Erdogan

Iranian president visiting Turkey, will sign agreements strengthening ties

Ankara, Tehran look to increase economic cooperation with first Iranian presidential visit to Turkey in 18 years.

JUNE 7, 2014ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Turkish PM Erdogan in Iran.