On March 26 the Iranian Foreign Ministry called recent remarks by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as "baseless and meddlesome," stating that Ankara is playing a blame game to justify its expansionist polices, Hurriyet reports.
"Unfortunately, Turkish officials keep making baseless, meddlesome and troublesome remarks against their neighbors," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bahram Qassemi said in a statement.
"By accusing others and repeating false claims, they are trying to justify their meddlesome and expansionist policies toward their neighbors," he said.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the Turkish-British Tatlıdil Forum in the southern province of Antalya on March 25, Erdoğan accused Tehran of pursuing "racist and discriminatory" policies in Iraq.