Turkey has welcomed the historic nuclear deal struck by Iran today with the United States and five other world powers on the fifth day of negotiations, Hürriyet Daily News reported.
"The agreement reached by the sides today has become the first positive concrete development since the Tehran declaration in 2010," a statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry following the announcement said. "Naturally, the deal in question forms the beginning of the process and a part of measures to promote confidence."
"We call on the sides to keep up their constructive approaches to carry the process further," the statement said. "We hope both sides will take the necessary steps required by the agreement, so the problem can be solved in a diplomatic way that would satisfy everyone."
"Turkey is ready to support this process in all ways as it had made every effort to keep the diplomatic process alive to find a solution. Turkey will keep on defending the right to nuclear energy use for peaceful purposes, while expecting the obligations of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NTP) to be carried out."
Turkey also maintained its support to efforts of destroying weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, the statement said.