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Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi is due in Ankara on Monday for talks on bilateral, regional and international issues. Ties between predominantly Muslim but strictly secular Turkey and the Islamist government in Tehran were strained last summer when Turkey accused its neighbor of sheltering Kurdish rebels fighting the Ankara government.
Tension escalated when Tehran said five people were killed and 10 wounded in a Turkish air raid on its northwestern border region in July. Ankara said its warplanes bombed a PKK camp in northern Iraq, and not Iran. The tension scaled down in August when the two countries signed an agreement in Ankara to cooperate against "terrorist groups" along their joint border.
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