Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday that Turkey did not approve of U.S. sanctions on Iran, as they would lead to destabilisation in the region, Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency reported. 

"The U.S. decision on the sanctions against Iran puts regional safety and stability in danger," Erdoğan said. "I want to stress once more that we, Turkey, do not support these decisions."

Turkey is among eight countries to which the United States granted a six-month exemption for trading with Iran when a new round of sanctions on Iranian financial activities and oil and gas sales went into force on Nov. 5

"We will continue to be in solidarity with brotherly Iran at a time when pressures on Iran mounts which we find unjust,” Erdoğan said at a news conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in the Turkish capital Ankara.

Erdoğan said Ankara was ready to take any measures to decrease the negative impacts of the sanctions on economic relations between Turkey and Iran. 

The Iranian president called U.S. sanctions a 100 percent terrorist act.