Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a joint Turkish-Iranian operation against Kurdish militants is “always on the agenda,” a week after Tehran’s top armed forces commander visited Ankara for rare talks.
“It is always on the agenda to carry out a joint operation with Iran against those terror organizations which pose a threat,” Erdogan tells reporters in Istanbul before a trip to Jordan.
Erdogan does not say where the operation against the PKK will be focused.
“They always cause harm to Iran and to us. We work because we believe that if the two countries cooperate, we can reach a conclusion in a much shorter period of time,” he says.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran, Mohammad Bagheri, right, salutes the honor guards as he is welcomed by Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces Hulusi Akar during his official visit at the Turkish General Staff headquarters in Ankara, on August 15, 2017. (AFP/STR)
Iran’s Armed Forces chief of staff General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri says that during his visit it was agreed that Turkey would step up the control of its border with Iran.
“The actions of Turkey and Iran complement themselves. We reached good agreements to prevent terrorists passing from one side of the border to the other,” he says.
— AFP
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