"Well I don’t think it would be the right thing to blame Iran," Erdogan said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News.
He recalled the fact that the attacks came from several parts of Yemen.
"If we just place the entire burden on Iran, it won’t be the right way to go. Because the evidence available does not necessarily point to that fact," said the president.
Tensions have escalated in the Persian Gulf after drones hit two oil facilities in the north of Saudi Arabia on September14.
Yemen’s Houthi rebel group initially claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the U.S. has since blamed Iran, as has Saudi Arabia.
The Islamic Republic has denied any connection to the strikes.
Turning to U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic, the president said there is no point to them.
"We are here today and gone tomorrow. Specifically, we are neighbors with Iran, and I know that sanctions never solved anything," said Erdogan.
The president also rejected an allegation by U.S. newspaper The New York Post claiming that Turkey has been helping Iran, Venezuela and Syria evade U.S. sanctions through Turkish banks and companies.
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