Iran-Turkey reaffirm int'l campaign against terrorism

Tehran, June 20, IRNA -- Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar on Saturday called for enhanced cooperation with Turkey in campaign against terrorism, drug-trafficking and organized crimes in the run-up to the upcoming 13th Iran-Turkey security meeting.

Najjar made the remarks in a meeting with Turkish ambassador to Tehran, Umit Yardim.

Given the cultural affinity between both nations, Najjar described the current level of bilateral ties as ‘excellent’.

Grounds for expansion of cooperation are well-prepared, he said.

Najjar voiced Iran’s readiness to expand all-out cooperation and relations with Turkey.

He called for boosting economic cooperation, border trade, cultural cooperation, tourism, campaign against drug trafficking and terrorism as the means to help deepen relations between the two nations.

Najjar also lauded Turkey for its independent stand in backing Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities and called Tehran Declaration as a new phase on cooperation among independent states in the world.

He also lauded the brave performance of Turkish government and nation about dispatch of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and said the savage and brutal attacks of the Zionists to this humanitarian convoy revealed the criminal nature of the regime.

The Turkish envoy, for his part, said Turkey regards the Islamic Republic of Iran as a great country in the region as well as in the globe and called for all-out cooperation with Tehran.

Ankara spares no efforts to help bolster and broaden economic cooperation between the two countries, he said.

Umit Yardim said that grounds for mass presence of Turkish tourists in Iran are well-prepared./end