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Turkey

Erdogan to visit Iran amid tensions

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Teheran for high level meetings on Tuesday, despite recent tensions over the Saudi-led bombing operation in Yemen. The visit has been in the cards for some time, but some Iranian lawmakers had called for it to be scrapped last week after Erdogan publicly backed Saudi Arabia's operation against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen and criticized Teheran for trying to "dominate the region".