The consequences of not intervening to stop the conflict between Iran and the allied forces of the US and Israel could produce a period that “nobody can handle”, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on March 2.

"Nobody can handle the burden of ⁠the ​economic and geopolitical uncertainties that such a ​period will cause. This is why this fire needs to be extinguished before it grows ​any more," Erdogan said in a speech given at a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner in Ankara, as reported by Reuters.

Making his strongest statement so far against the attacks on Iran, Erdogan said they were a "clear violation of ​international law" and that Turkey shared ‌the pain of the Iranian people amid the widening war.

Turkey did not want "fighting, war, tensions, and massacres" right across its borders, said Turkey’s leader of 23 years, and Ankara would intensify contacts "at every level" until a ceasefire was ​achieved and space ​was made for ⁠diplomacy.

If the war was allowed to continue it could produce "serious repercussions" for regional and global security, added Erdogan.

Erdogan is regarded as having something of a “bromance” with US counterpart Donald Trump, but he has atrocious relations with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he has described as “a Hitler” on several occasions.

Ahead of the attack on Iran, which on February 28 resulted in the assassination by airstrike of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Turkey, a Nato member that borders Iran to the country’s northwest, spent weeks calling on Washington and Tehran to reach ​an agreement to resolve their differences peacefully.