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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.

 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends an interview with Reuters, in Brussels, Belgium April 4, 2025.
 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

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

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attend a joint press conference in Tehran, Iran, November 30, 2025.

Turkish gov't demands caution against foreign intervention in Iran amid nationwide protests


Iran, Russia and Turkey signal growing alliance

For years, Turkey would say one thing to Moscow and Tehran while telling Washington’s Iran hawks that Turkey was “against Russia and Iran.”

Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir Putin of Russia hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Ankara, Turkey April 4, 2018

Turkey and Iran seek ‘strong foundation’ for partnership - analysis

Turkish pro-government media: High level cooperation with Iran expected

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in Ankara, Turkey, September 16, 2019

Iran’s Zarif went to Turkey to push ‘close relations’

Visit comes amid an economic downturn.

FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow, Russia December 30, 2019.

Iranian diplomats instigated killing of dissident in Turkey, officials say

The accusation is likely to strain ties between Turkey and Iran, two regional powers which had grown closer under the government of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

A Turkish riot police stands guard in front of the Iranian Consulate during a protest against Iran's role in Aleppo, in Istanbul

Iranian FM heads to Syria, Turkey to discuss regional situation

Assad and Zarif will discuss regional and international developments and avenues for preserving the peace in the region, according to MEHR.

SYRIAN PRESIDENT Bashar Assad meeting with Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif in 2015.

Erdogan vows Turkey to continue buying Iranian oil despite U.S. sanctions

Erdogan said Turkey will continue to buy natural gas from Iran in line with its long-term supply contract despite Trump's threats to punish countries doing business with Iran.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, September 25, 2018

Fallout from the Turkey-Iran-Russia meeting

The problem is that the US has no clear plan now for Syria, while its adversaries appear to have one.

Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir Putin of Russia hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Ankara, Turkey April 4, 2018

France: Turkey and Iran are violating international law in Syria

Iran is a key ally of the Syrian government in the seven-year civil war and it says it has no intention of withdrawing unless Syria requested it do so.

UN chemical weapons experts inspect alleged chemical samples from an attack in Syria, 2013

Caught in the Syrian quagmire

The US and Russia, two world super-powers, and Turkey and Iran, the two regional Islamic powers, are locked into a deadly confrontation with no political issue in sight.

Smoke rises from a target hit by Turkish forces in Afrin, Syria, January 20, 2018

Turkey to complete wall on Iranian border by spring 2019

President Tayyip Erdogan said last year Turkey would build walls along its border with Iraq and part of the border with Iran similar to the nearly completed one on its longest border, with Syria.

'The wall along Mexican border wouldn’t be built and there’d be no chance Mexico would pay a single peso for it.'