Turkey has again praised last year’s disputed Iranian presidential
election that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power amid
ongoing unrest.
“We consider the elections democratic and, in terms of the people’s
turnout, a positive development,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu told a
joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr
Mottaki, who was in Ankara Wednesday to co-chair the Turkish-Iranian
Joint Economic Committee meeting.
“The strong participation [in elections] is important but the latest
developments upset us,” said Davutoğlu.
Street protests that followed the presidential poll in June plunged
Iran into its biggest internal crisis since the Islamic Revolution in
1979 that toppled the Shah. Iran hanged Thursday two men convicted of
being moharebs, or those that war against God, over the unrest.
Another conservative cleric, meanwhile, has demanded more opposition
protesters be executed.
Davutoğlu stressed that Turkey placed a priority on the peace and
stability of Iranians, saying, “We believe Iran will overcome such
problems as soon as possible and continue to have peace, stability and
welfare.”
Turkey was one of the first countries to congratulate Ahmadinejad
after elections although many European leaders declined to do so. Iran’s
moderate opposition says the June elec... >>>
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