*ANKARA – The Turkish presidency said Tuesday it feared US President DonaldTrump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal could open up “newconflicts”.*——————————

“The unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the nuclear deal is adecision that will cause instability and new conflicts,” said IbrahimKalin, spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Twitter.

“Turkey will continue to resolutely oppose all types of nuclear arms.”

Despite calls from many of its allies, Trump announced Tuesday he waspulling the US out of the 2015 agreement.

Trump said the US would restore punitive sanctions on Tehran, after heconcluded “that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under thedecaying and rotten structure of the current agreement.”

Turkey and Iran are striving to develop pragmatic relations with eachother, particularly over Syria which borders both countries, despite along-standing, reciprocal distrust. – APP/AFP