Turkish vice president meets Pezeshkian in Tehran as supreme leader’s funeral starts

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran.

Yilmaz travelled to Iran to attend a state ceremony for the country’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli attacks in late February.

In a statement on Turkish social media platform NSosyal, Yilmaz said Türkiye “deeply shares the pain” suffered by the “brotherly Iranian people” in the recent period.

“As Türkiye, we will continue contributing to efforts to make peace and stability permanent in our region, strengthen channels of dialogue, and support the normalisation process after the war,” he said.

Yilmaz said Türkiye would keep working with Iranian counterparts to further develop bilateral relations in all areas, particularly the economy, trade, energy, and transportation.