TEHRAN- A planned Iran-Turkey trade meeting, which was scheduled to be held on July 19 in Ankara, has been postponed due to the unsecure situation in the wake of Saturday’s Turkish military coup, IRNA reported.

According to Seyed Jalal Ebrahimi, the secretary general of Iran-Turkey Joint Chamber of Commerce, the meeting was expected to address joint agricultural activities between the two sides.

In the early hours of Saturday, anti-Erdogan military seized government buildings, bombed the parliament and took over media bureaus. However, thousands of people flooded onto the streets across Turkey as Erdogan vowed to respond. Dozens of people have been reportedly killed.

Mahmoud Va’ezi, the Iranian minister of communications and information technology, said in April “Regarding their present potentials, Iran and Turkey can enhance the volume of their bilateral trade up to $100 billion per annum.”

“Both sides are resolved to reach a 30-billion-dollar trade volume in the near future, the goal which has been set by the two countries’ presidents in their recent meeting,” Va’ezi said in a meeting with Erdal Bahcivan, the chairman of Istanbul Chamber of Industry.

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