The recently approved sanctions against Iran will not require Turkey to take any additional measures or institute any new arrangements, the Foreign Ministry has said following its initial assessment of the UN Security Council’s resolution.
“Sanctions do not affect our energy cooperation with Iran at all. Turkey already does not have important operations with Iranian banking systems. So we do not need any measures to address that,” diplomatic sources told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Thursday.
“The sole consequences of the new sanctions for Turkey will be increasing border controls, such as for cargos of Iranian ships. But no new legal arrangements are yet needed,” the sources said.
Although Turkey, along with Brazil, voted “no” on the Security Council resolution to impose new sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear program, Ankara has assured the international community that it will implement them while taking other countries’ moves as a precedent for its own measures.
“Currently, we already implement the required inspections on our borders. But there will be additional technical measures taken,” diplomatic sources told the Daily News. “For instance, the previous practice was that if objectionable material was detected on a ship, it was sent back to the country of the ship’s flag. Hereafter, it will be destroyed immediately.”