Iran has added fuel to escalating tensions with Turkey by suggesting on Tuesday that Turkey's Western-like secular political structure is not compatible for post-revolution Arab nations, Today's Zaman reported.
Ali-Akbar Velayati, senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told a news conference that Turkey's model of "secular Islam" was a version of western liberal democracy and unacceptable for countries that is going what he said "Islamic awakening," Financial Times reported Tuesday.
Velayati's remarks came on a day when Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi, demanding an explanation over recent threatening remarks by Iranian officials against Turkey. Salehi reportedly told Davutoglu that the statements are not Iran's official position.