Turkish forces have carried out a wave of air and artillery strikes against both IS jihadists in Syria and Kurdish militants in Iraq over the past two days.
Asked to comment on the strikes, foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said "all combat against terrorism should be done with respect to international rules and to the international sovereignty of states".
"Any action that leads to the weakening of national governments can, in effect, encourage terrorist groups to fulfil their criminal actions," she added.
Afkham also said Iran welcomes "international cooperation in the battle against terrorism".
That may have been a reference to the fact that Turkey, which has long backed the rebellion against Assad, did not coordinate the attacks with the Syrian regime.
Iran, a predominantly Shiite country, is the principal regional ally of Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Tehran provides both financial and military support to him in his battle against the mainly Sunni rebellion.
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More than 1,000 Kurds and leftist Turks have marched in Paris to protest airstrikes by Turkey on Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq...
ReplyDeleteOne banner held high at Saturday's march read, "To hit the PKK is collaborating with Daesh." PKK is the Kurdish acronym for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, whose affiliates have helped battle the Islamic State group, which is called "Daesh" in France.
The march was originally called to protest Monday's Islamic State suicide attack in the southeast Turkish town of Suruc that killed 32 people. But Turkish airstrikes on PKK camps in Iraq changed the agenda of the protest march from the Gare de l'Est train station to the Place de la Republique.
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A day earlier, he declared an amnesty for draft-dodgers and deserters.
The conflict is thought to have left more than 230,000 dead and displaced millions. Vast areas are no longer under government control.
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