India, June 3 -- Signalling the desire to preserve ties with India, Turkey on Wednesday said its friendship with Pakistan to not be seen as hostility towards India, adding that the support for Islamabad should not overshadow cooperation elsewhere.

Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan, in a key outreach message, tried to convey that Turkey's close and "brotherly" ties with Pakistan were not unique and should not be interpreted by India as an unfriendly act.

"It is what needs to be done between Turkey and India, because we have a lot to cooperate, to benefit, and we are mature enough to go in this direction. So Turkey is not the only country you actually have good relations and brotherly relations with Pakistan. There are other countries,...