PoliticsNovember 12, 2026
Erdoğan meets Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Antalya

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Antalya on 12 November as part of COP31. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Defence Minister Yaşar Güler were also present.
Pezeshkian has close ties to South Azerbaijan: for many years he was elected to parliament from Tabriz, and he often speaks Azerbaijani Turkish in public.
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