Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will travel to Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, January 23, to meet his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Initially scheduled for November, this meeting has been postponed several times.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will pay an official one-day visit to Turkey on Wednesday for talks focused on the regional repercussions of the Israel-Hamas war, a diplomatic source told AFP.
Raisi will meet Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the capital Ankara. The visit was postponed twice – once in November and once earlier this month – because of spiralling tensions across the Middle East.
Iran’s official news agency IRNA said that Raisi would lead a “high-ranking political and economic delegation.”
The visit comes amid growing fears about the regional repercussion of the war in Gaza, where Israel carried out a relentless offensive that has killed at least 25,490 people in Gaza, around 70% of them women, children and adolescents, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
Raisi vowed on Monday that Israel “will certainly pay” for the killing in Syria of a senior general with the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The United States and Britain launched a second round of joint military strikes on Iran-backed Houthis on Tuesday in reprisal to their repeated attacks on Red Sea shipping.
Erdogan condemned the first round of strikes early this month as “disproportionate,” accusing Washington and London of trying to turn the Red Sea into a “bloodbath.”
With AFP
