Turkish President Erdo?an meets Iranian counterpart in Tehran

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as part of his official visit to Tehran on April 7.

The trip comes amid recent tension between Ankara and Tehran over the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen.

The visit has been on the cards for some time but some Iranian lawmakers had called for it to be scrapped after Erdo?an publicly backed Saudi Arabia?s operation against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen and criticized Tehran for trying to ?dominate the region.?

During the one-day visit at the invitation of President Hassan Rouhani, Erdo?an will meet both Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to a statement posted on the Turkish presidential website over the weekend.

?During the visit bilateral relations will be addressed in all their dimensions, and there will also be an exchange of views on regional and international issues,? the statement read.

Erdo?an is being accompanied by six ministers from the cabinet of Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci, Customs and Trade Minister Nurettin Canikli, Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z, Culture and Tourism Minister Ömer Çelik and Development Minister Cevdet Y?lmaz are all participating in the trip.

The two countries have strong economic ties, with sanctions-hit Iran being the second-largest gas supplier to energy-strapped Turkey, providing it with 10 billion cubic meters per year.

However, diplomatic relations have suffered in recent years, as they have been punctuated by particularly sharp disagreements over how to resolve the civil war in neighboring Syria.

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