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The Al-Jazeera correspondent, citing diplomatic sources, reported that Turkey’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador to Ankara, Muhammad Farazmand, and expressed dissatisfaction with what it described as unfounded accusations regarding President Recep Tayyip’s statements. Erdogan.
Turkish diplomatic sources said that the Foreign Ministry expressed to Ambassador Farazmand its dissatisfaction with the revocation by the Iranian Foreign Ministry of Ankara’s Ambassador, Derya Urs, after a tweet from Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad. Zarif.
The sources added that the Foreign Ministry also expressed dissatisfaction with the baseless accusations against President Erdogan and the promotion of a hate campaign against Turkey.
Earlier on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador, in the context of a poem that President Erdogan read on Thursday in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, during his celebrations for the victory in the battles of the region of Karabakh.
During his visit, Erdogan recited a poem by an Iranian poet of Azerbaijani origin, speaking about the division of Azerbaijan’s land between Russia and Iran in the 19th century, and Tehran expressed concern that this reinforces separatist tendencies among members of the Azeri minority in Iran.
Yesterday Friday, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, issued a statement in which the Deputy Foreign Minister summoned the Turkish ambassador and presented him with the strong condemnation of the ministry, and that Tehran is awaiting clarifications in this regard.
The Foreign Ministry described Erdogan’s words as interference in Iranian affairs and requested clarification from Ankara on the matter.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry reported that the Turkish president indicated in a speech in Baku that the Azerbaijani provinces in Iran are part of Azerbaijan.
A large group of the Azerbaijani population lives in Iran, especially in the northwestern provinces bordering Azerbaijan and Armenia, which is separated from Azerbaijan by the Aras River.
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