Turkey does not want a new wave of attacks on Iran or further destabilization of the wider region, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. He said he had conveyed Ankara’s concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump and offered Turkish assistance in opening a path to diplomacy between Washington and Tehran.
“We do not want a new wave of attacks against Iran to begin and our region to be drawn into even greater instability. We say whenever there is an opportunity that problems can be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy,” Erdogan told reporters aboard the government aircraft. The president was returning from Azerbaijan.
Erdogan warned that a negative development could once again occur, but stressed that Turkey was doing everything possible to prevent it. He said he had discussed the issue with Donald Trump earlier and had conveyed Ankara’s reservations to him.
The Turkish authorities, he added, had told both the United States and Iran that they were ready to intervene in order to “open the door to peace and diplomacy.”
“We hope common sense will prevail and that, as a region, we will step back from the edge of the abyss,” the Turkish president said. He added that more conflicts would mean only more losses for the region, while the cost of war was not paid only by the countries involved in the fighting.
Erdogan said the consequences of the events were affecting a broad geographic area — from Turkey to the countries of the Persian Gulf, from Iraq to Syria, and from Europe to Asia.
Source: bta.bg/bg
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