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On appearance, Turkey and Iran continue to have good ties. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s visit to Tehran earlier this month seemed to confirm this also. The two countries will clearly try and maintain this appearance for practical reasons. But the fact is that they have divergent interests when it comes to regional developments.

For Turkey, the “Arab Spring” is the product of a demand for more democracy, prosperity and stability. For Iran, however, the streets are in revolutionary fervor and an Islamic takeover is imminent in the countries involved.

The divergence between the two countries has also manifested itself in the radically different approaches they have towards Iran’s closest regional ally, Syria. There, the protests are not considered by Tehran as “revolutionary fervor” but “U.S. and Zionist machinations.”

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