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The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) official warned Monday that any external military intervention in Iran would be based on "wrong analyses" and cause "great instability."
The party spokesperson Omer Celik addressed regional and global issues following a Central Executive Board meeting chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Speaking to journalists at AK Party headquarters in Ankara, Celik said Türkiye is closely monitoring developments regarding Iran and emphasized the importance of resolving issues through ongoing negotiations.
"The issue regarding Iran is also a topic we need to follow closely. Negotiations have begun, and we consider it extremely important that problems are resolved through these negotiations," Celik said.
"An external intervention in Iran would be based on wrong analyses. There are political and social problems in Iran, but Iranian society must solve these through its own dynamics," he added.
The spokesperson was unequivocal about military options: "The military intervention option must not be put on the agenda under any circumstances. External intervention would cause great instability."
Addressing Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's upcoming visit to Ankara on Feb. 11, Celik said "we can solve all our problems at the table."
However, he criticized Greece's military posture in the Aegean Sea, by stating, "The arming of islands that should be unarmed is producing negative consequences. Greece is trying to turn its own problems into EU problems."
He also directed comments at the Greek Cypriot side: "What the Greek Cypriot side needs to understand is that solving these problems does not come from turning the country into the headquarters of other countries."
"The right thing is to solve problems at the table. Threatening Türkiye is not something that will have any effect," he stated.
Celik said the visit would be "an occasion for developing diplomatic capacity" and that "expanding the scale of diplomacy will benefit everyone."
Türkiye's ruling party spokesperson also stated that the humanitarian aid to Gaza is still not reaching desired levels and that many extensions of "genocide activity" continue.
"The ceasefire is extremely fragile. The genocide network poses great obstacles to the path toward establishing a Palestinian state that would ensure lasting peace," he said.
"The international community's surrender and double standards toward Gaza in the face of international law, principles and institutions has shown that the era of uncertainty we speak of has now become completely clear," Celik added.
"We will continue our struggle regarding Gaza strongly without any interruption," he declared.
Celik described the current global situation as an "era of uncertainty" marked by fragmenting institutions and eroding principles.
"We are going through a period where the world is fragmenting, institutions are wearing out, institutions are collapsing, and fundamental principles are eroding," he said.
The spokesperson noted that beyond tensions between the Global North and South or between the Western alliance and others, "conflicts and tensions are now emerging within the Western alliance itself."
He pointed to this year's World Economic Forum in Davos as evidence of systemic problems.
"For the first time this year at Davos, the elites of the neoliberal order made statements, declarations and analyses admitting that this order is no longer working and has gone wrong," Celik noted.
"Some of these were implicit, some were explicit and led to debates. Some even caused diplomatic crises. Therefore, the era of uncertainty has been confirmed by everyone. While it was said that the known problems of the order were somehow being managed or tolerated, it has now been seen that they have become intolerable," he concluded.
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