Babacan meets with Iranian president

Foreign Minister Ali Babacan yesterday met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he is attending a meeting of the Developing Eight Countries (D-8). Afterwards, Ahmadinejad said that the Turkish-Iranian relationship is a friendly one. "We see Turkey's development, progress and success as Iran's development, progress and success," he added. "We're sure that our brothers in Turkey have the same perspective on Iran." Regarding Iraq, Ahmadinejad said that only solution was to support the popularly elected government.