Rouhani Receives Erdoğan in Saadabad Palace

Iran’s president has received Turkish prime minister in Saadabad Palace, who is visiting Tehran. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan leads a delegation consisting of foreign, economy, development, and tourism and travel ministers to Tehran.Erdogan-Rouhani

The meeting was also attended by president’s special aid and head of his office, first deputy, ministers of foreign affairs, information and IT, culture and Islamic guidance, industry, trade, and mines.

Vice-president had welcomed Erdoğan before the meeting. The meeting discussed bilateral cooperation. Turkish delegation is in Tehran for a 2-day visit, and Erdoğan will also have a meeting with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.

Erdogan: Turkey Needs Iran’s Energy Resources

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan underlined his country’s enthusiasm for starting a new chapter in the relations with Tehran, and said Turkey is in dire need of Iran’s energy resources.

“We import oil and natural gas from Iran and those are strategic products that Turkey imports from Iran and we can receive them more (than before),” Erdogan told reporters in Tehran after inking several documents on cooperation with Iran on Wednesday.

“Given the fact that Turkey’s industries are making progress on a daily basis and rapidly, we direly need energy products, specially Iran’s natural gas, and we should take joint win-win steps,” he added.

Erdogan also called for the further expansion of bilateral economic ties with Tehran, and said there is a political resolve in Iran and Turkey to increase the level of their trade exchanges to $30bln in 2015.

Iran and Turkey are both trying to return to the golden age of their relations after a period of recession of ties due to their differences on certain regional issues, specially in Syria.

Iran and Turkey have increased their cooperation in various fields of economy, security, trade, education, energy and culture in recent years.

The two sides have exchanged several politico-economic delegations during the last few months.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh met Erdogan in Ankara last week and discussed ways to further boost bilateral trade ties.

“I was sent on a mission to Turkey to talk with Prime Minister and Energy Minister of Turkey before the scheduled Turkish Prime Minister’s visit to Tehran next week”, Zanganeh said in Ankara.

The two sides have decided to boost bilateral trade relations and it is scheduled delegations from both countries to continue negotiations within the next days, Zanagneh said.