{"id":3028,"date":"2017-05-28T10:17:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T07:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2017-05-28T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T10:04:16","slug":"turkeys-rather-lackluster-economic-ties-with-iran-from-journal-for-iranian-studies-issue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/centre-for-researches-and-studies\/turkeys-rather-lackluster-economic-ties-with-iran-from-journal-for-iranian-studies-issue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s rather lackluster economic ties with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Abdullah Bozkurt<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Business, trade and investment ties between Turkey and<br \/>\nIran, two competing powers in the region with a combined<br \/>\nGross Domestic Product (GDP) of $1.14 trillion1, have been<br \/>\nthwarted for decades from unleashing their full potential mainly<br \/>\nby the protectionist policies pursued by the Tehran regime for<br \/>\nvarious reasons.<br \/>\nFor one, Iran is keen to safeguard its relatively uncompetitive<br \/>\nindustry against Turkish manufacturing and industrial products,<br \/>\npreserve the hold of Mullahs and of the military on its economy.<br \/>\nThe ideological hostility toward Turkey, a predominantly Sunni<br \/>\nnation, coupled with the long-running historical rivalry in the<br \/>\nregion, has also played a significant role in impeding the further<br \/>\ndevelopment of the economic ties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/Turkey\u2019s-rather-lackluster-economic-ties-with-Iran.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Read More<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdullah Bozkurt Business, trade and investment ties between Turkey and Iran, two competing powers in the region with a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $1.14 trillion1, have been thwarted for decades from unleashing their full potential mainly by the protectionist policies pursued by the Tehran regime for various reasons. For one, Iran is keen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42,1296,1359,162,308,12,386,1822,361,1824,73,38,83,28,968,1823,237],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centre-for-researches-and-studies","tag-agcis","tag-arabian-gulf-center-for-iranian-studies","tag-business","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-iran","tag-khamenei","tag-lackluster","tag-media","tag-powers","tag-press","tag-rouhani","tag-syria","tag-tehran","tag-ties","tag-turkeys","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}