Tehran, YJC. While Turkey is trying via international arbitration to get Iranian gas for less, Iran says it will agree to Turkey only if doubling export.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei told the visiting Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, here in Tehran on Wednesday that the two countries' extensive capacities and potentials provide a proper ground for increasing development and deepening of bilateral relations.
The deepening corruption scandal shaking Turkey's political establishment seems to have pitted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan against his longtime political ally President Abdullah Gul, observers say.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu discussed bilateral relations and regional issues including Syria and Iraq with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif late Jan. 4 in Istanbul.
Turkey's economy minister, ensnared in a vast corruption scandal that has roiled the government of Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erdogan, resigned Wednesday.
A high-profile graft scandal is hitting Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the biggest challenge yet to his 11 years in power and raises the stakes for elections set for next year.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has implied to expel US Ambassador to Ankara for his alleged remarks regarding a major graft probe in which four ministers face allegations of bribery and wrongdoing, and the state bank Halkbank is accused of for links to suspicious money transactions and gold-smuggling from Iran.
Rudaw TV’s use of a Kurdistan map in its daily weather forecast has caused uproar in Turkey and among Iran’s Azeri community, calling it a threat to their land.
Oil exports from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan to Turkey could start next month, the region's prime minister said, despite a dispute with Baghdad over how to divide the spoils from its energy resources.
Head of Iran-Turkey Parliamentary Friendship Group Moayed Hosseini Sadr said that the Iranian parliamentarians have a positive attitude towards developing relations with the Muslim countries, specially Turkey.