Iran protests put Turkish government in tight spot
As their Western partners strongly react to the Iranian protests, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his administration remain curiously quiet.
As protests over the death of Iranian citizen Mahsa Amini, an ethnic Kurd, at the hands of Iran’s notorious morality police reverberate across the globe, the Turkish government has been strikingly silent on the matter — unlike its Western counterparts.
While the protests were largely covered by Turkey’s independent media outlets, they were mostly downplayed by pro-government media groups.
Is it possible that the protests have actually escaped the Turkish government's radar?
“[With a] 534-kilometer-long border and four official border gates with [Iran], and with 40 million Turkic origin citizens in the country, it is unrealistic to assume Ankara isn’t watching the events unfolding in Iran with utmost concern,” Iranian-Turkish journalist Savash Porgham told Al-Monitor.
