Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi who had traveled to Istanbul to participate in the meeting of foreign ministers of the 3+3 regional cooperation mechanism and to have an official meeting with high-ranking Turkish officials, met with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday. In the meeting, Araghchi and Erdogan discussed bilateral relations between Tehran and Ankara and the latest developments in the region. The Iranian foreign minister extended President Masoud Pezeshkian’s greetings to the Turkish side and underlined the need for strengthening regional interactions and expanding bilateral relations, especially in commercial, economic, tourism and counter-terrorism spheres. Araghchi stressed that Iran and Turkey, as two big and influential neighbors in the region and the Muslim world, share an opinion on the serious threat posed by the Zionist regime's boundless aggression and crimes to the security and stability of the region. He said the two sides stress the need for urgent action by the international community to end the killing of innocents in Gaza, curb Israel’s war-mongering policies and stop the regime's genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The Iranian foreign minister also underscored the necessity of coordination between the influential countries of the region, especially Iran and Turkey, to make decisions and implement urgent measures to stop the war machine of the Israeli regime. In the meeting, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent his greetings to the Iranian president. Erdogan described as important, serious and close cooperation between Iran and Turkey as two important countries in the region to stop the genocide and crimes of the Israeli regime. The Turkish president also underlined Turkey's serious determination to deepen cooperation with Iran and expressed his support for expanding relations in all areas, especially the economic and commercial relations between the two countries, and for removing existing obstacles to the move.