Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 09/2010

Significance of Turkey-Brazil Nuclear Deal with Iran

Mehmet Ozkan

August 2010

Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, University of Calcutta

Abstract

With the participation of the foreign ministers of Turkey and Brazil along with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Iran has signed a joint declaration on May 17, 2010 with Brazil and Turkey "in which Iran agreed to send low-enriched uranium to Turkey in return for enriched fuel for a research reactor.”1 This joint declaration was considered a very serious one by specialists closely following the nuclear negotiations.