The meeting to review the hundred years of Iran-Turkey relations: the multidimensionalization of relations in the last 2 decades and geopolitical “co-destiny”

According to the reporter of the International Group Tasnim News Agency, the meeting “Examination of Iran-Turkey relations in Chasm” The style of the last hundred years” was held on Saturday evening with the presence of Seyyed Kazem Sajjadpour, a professor at the Faculty of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Seyed Ali Mojani, the former director general of the Center for Diplomacy Documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Rahmat Haji Mina, a university professor, at the Cheshme publishing office.

Haji Mina: Turkey has become Iran’s regional rival after the Justice and Development Party came to power

Rahmat Haji Mina In this meeting, with an academic view of the relations between the two countries, he stated: If we want to have a comprehensive analysis of the relations between the two countries, we need a historical view.

He added: It was for the first time in the 60s. that the relations between Iran and Turkey were discussed academically.

This university professor, referring to the field of modernization in the relations between the two countries as one of the fields of study, said: Turkey appeared more successful than Iran in this field. Because the Turks had learned to simplify the problem well, but in Iran, the elites could not simplify the problems because there were a set of enemies and problems, which is why they were not very successful in simplifying the problems.

Sajadpour: Iran-Turkey relations have changed from one-dimensional to multi-dimensional after the Justice and Development Party

Seyyed Kazem Sajjadpour also called the relations between Iran and Turkey one of the oldest contemporary relations in the world and said: the borders of the two countries are one of the most stable borders of the two countries in the world and the most stable. The border is in the Middle East.

He continued: Geography, time, history and power in both countries in the region are among the important elements in the relations between the two countries. Iran and Türkiye have a “same geopolitical destiny”. Iran-Turkey relations have had ups and downs for 400 years.

This university professor added: In the post-Cold War period, regional powers have found more space to play a role, and Iran and Turkey are among them. Saying that we are witnessing relative stability in the relations between the two countries, Sejadpour said: neither in Turkey nor in Iran, the sentiments and tendencies against the two countries are not deep at all, but conventional. There have been issues in the Syria issue, but they have not had a structurally negative and anti-Iranian view.

He stated that the relationship between Iran and Turkey has changed from a one-dimensional to a multi-faceted relationship since the period of justice and development. In the bipolar period, the security part of bilateral relations was prominent, after the Islamic revolution in Iran and the imposed war, the commercial dimension became important, but in the last two decades, these relations have become multifaceted and security, economic, military, political and humanitarian dimensions This university professor continued: This multifacetedness has guaranteed that differences, however important, will not harm the relationship. He read about the quality of the formation of the region over the past decade and said: The increasing interest of the new generation of students in Turkey towards Iran is also an important issue that will improve relations in the future.

Mojani: The Saad Abad agreement was a practical step for cooperation between the two countries in the region

Seyed Ali Mojani also discussed the relations between Iran and The Ottoman Empire was constantly based on breaking agreements, conflict, war, instability and rupture. Iran and Türkiye are different in some ways. Iran was an established civilization and Türkiye is a progressive civilization. Today’s Turkey is not located in the heart of any place, so its foreign policy moves in a vast geography and not a fixed region.

He continued: Turkey still does not have the establishment and stability that is required to think about the geopolitical territory. Ahmet Davutoğlu tried to consider a historical container for it, but this doctrine failed from within Turkey. The former director general of the Center for Diplomacy Documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stating that in the contemporary period, the first political spark between the Ottoman king And Qajariyah was defeated during Seyyed Jamal al-Din Asadabadi’s period, which of course was a failure, he stated: At the time of the assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah, the Ottoman ambassador was called to the court and Osmani was accused of murder. After that, Osmani did not allow the opponents of the Iranian regime to enter his territory and handed them over to the Iranian government. Mojani called the Saad Abad Treaty a practical step for the cooperation of the two countries in the region, while in In the past, they were fighting over the region, he said: We had competition over the area of ​​influence in the past, but it did not lead to cooperation, but the competition over commercial advantages has taken the form of cooperation.

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